Officium Novum

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Officium Novum
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Live album by Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble
Released September 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)
Recorded June 2009, Propstei St. Gerold
Genre Jazz, Early music
Length61:03
Label ECM
2125 NS
Producer Manfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
Dresden
(2009)		Officium Novum
(2010)		 Magico: Carta de Amor
(2012)

Officium Novum is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble recorded in Austria in 2009 and released on the ECM label. [1] The album is a sequel to their previous collaboration Officium (1994).

Jan Garbarek Norwegian saxophonist

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist who is also active in classical music and world music.

Hilliard Ensemble British male vocal quartet

The Hilliard Ensemble was a British male vocal quartet originally devoted to the performance of early music. The group was named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter Nicholas Hilliard. Founded in 1974, the group disbanded in 2014.

ECM Records German independent record label

ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence", according to a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.

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The Allmusic review by Stephen Eddins states "Like the first album, this one is suffused with a sense of distant mystery and a profound, powerful melancholy that is given voice with intense feeling. The sound again is spacious and warmly resonant, with an earthy, enveloping ambience. This album will be a must-have for anyone who loved the first one, and it should appeal to any listener with an affinity for meditative Eastern European spirituality, especially when tied to contemporary expressivity and stylistic freedom". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Jan Garbarek except as indicated

  1. "Ov Zarmanali" (Komitas) - 4:11
  2. "Svjete Tihij" (Traditional) - 4:14
  3. "Allting Finns" - 4:18
  4. "Litany: Litany/Otche Nash/Otche Nash" (Nikolai N. Kedrov/Traditional/Anonymous) - 13:06
  5. "Surb, Surb" (Komitas) - 6:40
  6. "Most Holy Mother of God" (Arvo Pärt) - 4:34
  7. "Tres Morillas M’enamoran" (Anonymous) - 3:32
  8. "Sirt Im Sasani" (Komitas) - 4:06
  9. "Hays Hark Nviranats Ukhti" (Komitas) - 6:25
  10. "Alleluia Nativitas" (Pérotin) - 5:20
  11. "We Are the Stars" - 4:09
  12. "Nur Ein Weniges Noch" (Giorgos Seferis) - 0:19

Personnel

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass saxophone and tubax. Soprano saxophones are the smallest saxophone in common use.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6. Countertenors often are baritones or tenors at core, but on rare occasions use this vocal range in performance.

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References

  1. ↑ ECM discography Archived 2010-09-21 at the Wayback Machine . accessed December 4, 2013
  2. 1 2 Eddins, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 4, 2013
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