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Christmas 2016

Read "Christmas 2016" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A Cappella is the original format for choral singing. The five selections addressed here make 2016 one of the better years for this music. Kings College Cambridge -The King's Men Twelve Days of Christmas Choir of King's College, Cambridge 2016 The King's Men are a vocal ensemble made up of choral scholars attending King's College, Cambridge. They are considered a “close-harmony" group. Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes ...

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Album Review

Arvo Part: Musica Selecta: A Sequence by Manfred Eicher

Read "Musica Selecta: A Sequence by Manfred Eicher" reviewed by John Kelman


Of all the longstanding relationships built between its artists and Manfred Eicher, the musical partnership of ECM Records' founder/primary producer and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt--who turned 80 years old on September 11, 2015--has to be one of the label's most important and fruitful. Certainly, amidst ECM's more composition-focused New Series imprint, there are few others whose collaborations with Eicher have proven to be so personally meaningful, so groundbreaking and so emotionally resonant. While Eicher worked in the classical ...

Album Review

Alessandro Giachero Ensemble: Passio

Read "Passio" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Quarantaquattro anni, alessandrino, Giachero allarga di fatto il già più volte apprezzato trio T.R.E. con Risso e Zanoli a un quartetto da camera (però, rispetto alla configurazione canonica, con un poliflautista al posto di uno dei due violini) nell'intento--ambizioso--di creare un'opera mista (ipotesi non nuova, del resto), classica e jazz insieme. L'elemento cameristico, alla fin fine, si rivela prevalente, secondo le modalità e le esemplificazione che andiamo a illustrare. Intanto l'aspetto compositivo (dodici i brani, tutti di ...

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Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament

Read "Adam's Lament" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Continua la stretta associazione tra il compositore estone Arvo Pärt e l'etichetta tedesca ECM, che a partire dal 1984, anno della pubblicazione del suo Tabula Rasa, gli ha dato una notorietà internazionale tale da renderlo uno dei musicisti contemporanei più presenti nei cataloghi discografici e nei programmi delle più importanti stagioni concertistiche mondiali. Come consuetudine, la produzione del disco ha visto il coinvolgimento diretto del compositore, presente alla registrazione effettuata nella chiesa di S.Nicolai a Tallinn, e di uno dei ...

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Extended Analysis

Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa

Read "Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski


Arvo PärtTabula Rasa (Deluxe Re-issue) ECM2010 (1984) A question that has always been asked, regardless of genre, is whether music can be conservative and revolutionary at the same time. Various composers have surfaced in recent times with brilliant compositions, but their work has not adhered to any of the schools of composition that make up the 20th century classical music. These composers have often drawn inspiration from musical principles and philosophies ...

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Album Review

Arvo Pärt: Arvo Pärt: Lamentate

Read "Arvo Pärt: Lamentate" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Arvo Pärt Lamentate ECM Records - distr. Ducale (2005) Il decimo titolo di Arvo Pärt per la collana New Series, uscito in occasione del suo settantesimo compleanno, continua la consolidata tradizione che vede l'etichetta tedesca privilegiata nella pubblicazione di prime incisioni assolute, grazie al rapporto ultraventennale instaurato col compositore estone. I due lavori qui presentati sono 'Lamentate' (2002) per pianoforte e orchestra e 'Da pacem Domine' (2004) per le voci soliste dello Hilliard Ensemble, che apre il disco. Commissionata da ...

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Album Review

Arvo Part: Passio

Read "Passio" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current consideration. Born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1935, Pärt immigrated to Berlin in 1980 to escape Soviet repression and shortly thereafter conceived his treatment of the Passion of Jesus Christ According to John based upon his newly developed musical style of tintinnabuli. His track of musical thought is ...


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