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Jan Garbarek: Officium

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 1994.02.24
Time:
 77:34
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Manfred Eicher
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.garbarek.com
Appears with: Keith Jarrett, Eberhard Weber, The Hilliard Ensemble
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Parce mihi domine (Christóbal de Morales) - 6:42
[2] Primo tempore (Anonymous) - 8:03
[3] Sanctus (Anonymous) - 4:44
[4] Regnanten Sempiterna (Anonymous) - 5:36
[5] O Salutaris Hostia (Pierre de la Rue) - 4:34
[6] Procedentem sponsum (Anonymous) - 2:50
[7] Pulcherrima rosa (Anonymous) - 6:55
[8] Parce mihi domine (de Morales) - 5:35
[9] Beata viscera (Magister Perotinus) - 6:34
[10] De spineto nata rosa (Anonymous) - 2:30
[11] Credo (Anonymous) - 2:06
[12] Ave maris stella (Guillaume Dufay) - 4:14
[13] Virgo flagellatur (Anonymous) - 5:19
[14] Oratio Ieremiae (Anonymous) - 5:00
[15] Parce mihi domine (de Morales) - 6:52

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Jan Garbarek - Soprano & Tenor Saxophones, Flute

     The Hilliard Ensemble:
David James - Countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump - Tenor
John Potter - Tenor
Gordon Jones - Baritone

Manfred Eicher - Liner Notes, Producer
Jim Bengston - Photography
Peter Laenger - Recording Supervision
Roberto Masotti - Photography
Barbara Wojirsch - Cover Design
John Potter - Liner Notes
Jean-Pierre Morel - Liner Note Translation
Franco Masotti - Liner Note Translation
Thomas Bodmer - Liner Note Translation
Carla Moreni - Liner Note Translation
Silvia Serrano - Liner Note Translation
Peter Laenger - Tonmeister

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Recorded in September 1993, Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.



"What is this music?" Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music, which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful, often astonishing, saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, these new melodies simply accompany; sometimes they transform the common--a routine minor chord, for instance--into a sublime, indescribable moment. The answer to the above question is easy, but it's different for each listener."

David Vernier - Amazon.com



Fearlessly searching for new conceptions of sound and not caring where he found them, Garbarek joined hands with the classical early-music movement, improvising around the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. Now here was a radical idea guaranteed to infuriate both hardcore jazz buffs and the even more pristine more-authentic-than-thou folk in early music circles. Yet this unlikely fusion works stunningly well -- and even more hearteningly, went over the heads of the purists and became a hit album at a time (1994) when Gregorian chants were a hot item. Chants, early polyphonic music, and Renaissance motets by composers like Morales and Dufay form the basic material, bringing forth a cool yet moving spirituality in Garbarek's work. Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano sax soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly. Those with nervous metabolisms may become impatient with this undefinable music, but if you give it a chance, it will seduce you, too.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide



Officium is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and early music vocal group The Hilliard Ensemble, that was released in 1994. The album was recorded at the monastery of Propstei St. Gerold in Austria. Allmusic awarded the album with 3½ stars and its review by Richard S. Ginell states: "Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano saxophone soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly." An Amazon customer remarked that Officium is "what Coltrane hears in heaven." Brought together by Manfred Eicher, this collaboration has become one of the most successful releases on the ECM label, achieving sales of more than 1.5 million. Following a number of successful concert tours, a second collaborative album, Mnemosyne, was released in 1999. Officium Novum, another sequel album, was released in September 2010.

Wikipedia.org



Wunderbar rein und klar klingen die Stimmen des Hilliard Ensembles, und ebenso natürlich schlängeln sich Jan Garbareks Tenor- und Sopransaxophon durch die mittelalterlichen Gesänge der vier Briten. Wie eine fünfte Stimme wirken die Saxophon-Töne, und doch bewahren sie eine hauchfeine, angenehme Distanz zu den 15 Gesängen aus dem 13. bis 16. Jahrhundert. Die Begegnung fiel so intensiv aus, daß sich nach Góreckis ruhmreicher 3. Symphonie und den gregoriantischen Gesängen der spanischen Mönche womöglich ein neuer Klassiker-Hit anbahnt.

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Stern des Monats. Dabei hat sich das renommierte Hilliard Ensemble mit dem Jazz-Saxophonisten Jan Garbarek zusammengetan. So entstehen helle, lichte Klangräume, in denen die alten Ge- sänge in eigentümlicher Färbung aufscheinen. Die Musik dieser CD beweist nichts; sie ent- wirft sich aus einer zutiefst nach innen gewandten Durchdringung von Vokalem und Instrumentalem; ihre Schlichtheit, ihre Zurück- haltung macht sie zu gelebter Erfahrung.

T. Urbach in FonoForum 11 / 94



Stern des Monats. Dabei hat sich das renommierte Hilliard Ensemble mit dem Jazz-Saxophonisten Jan Garbarek zusammengetan. So entstehen helle, lichte Klangräume, in denen die alten Ge- sänge in eigentümlicher Färbung aufscheinen. Die Musik dieser CD beweist nichts; sie ent- wirft sich aus einer zutiefst nach innen gewandten Durchdringung von Vokalem und Instrumentalem; ihre Schlichtheit, ihre Zurück- haltung macht sie zu gelebter Erfahrung.

T. Urbach in FonoForum 11/94
 

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