Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium Novum (2010)

This is Fiona Talkington in conversation with Jan Garbarek, Manfred Eicher and the Hilliard Ensemble's David James, Rogers-Covey Crump and Gordon Jones. It explains the context and background of the project and their upcoming album 'Officium Novum' with many excerpts of the music.


Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones)
David James (countertenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Steven Harrald (tenor)
Gordon Jones (baritone)
Manfred Eicher (producer)

Recorded: June and July 2009 in St. Gerold
Release: September 2010
Number: ECM 2125 / CD 476 3855
Tour: http://www.bremme-hohensee.de/garbarek_hilliard.htm#ontour



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The inspired bringing together of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble has resulted in consistently inventive music making since 1993. The unprecedented "Officium" album, with Garbarek's saxophone as a free-ranging 'fifth voice' with the Ensemble, gave the first indications of the musical scope and emotional power of this combination. "Mnemosyne" (1998) took the story further, expanding the repertoire beyond 'early music' to embrace works both ancient and modern.

Now, after another decade of shared experiences, comes "Officium Novum", the third album from Garbarek/Hilliard, recorded, like its distinguished predecessors, in the St Gerold monastery. A central focus this time is music of Armenia based on the adaptations of Komitas Vardapet, pieces which draw upon both medieval sacred music and the bardic tradition of the Caucasus. The Hilliards have studied these pieces in the course of their visits to Armenia, and the modes of the music encourage some of Garbarek's most impassioned playing. Alongside the Armenian pieces in the "Officium Novum" repertoire: Arvo Pärt's "Most Holy Mother of God" in an a cappella reading , Byzantine chant, two pieces by Jan Garbarek, including a new version of "We are the stars", as well as the Spanish "Tres morillas". There is also a new account of Perotin's "Alleluia, Nativitas": the freedom of interpretation is testimony to the way the project as a whole has grown since its introduction on ECM New Series, with the Hilliard Ensemble now very much involved in the music's improvisational processes and implications.

More here: http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/New_Series/2100/2125.php?lvredir=712&...

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Music

Tags:

• Officium Novum
• Jan Garbarek
• The Hilliard Ensemble
• David James
• Rogers Covey-Crump
• Steven Harrald
• Gordon Jones
• Manfred Eicher
• Officium
• ECM
• ECM New Series
• 2010

[CommentsSurvey]

@semrete : This is an interview; you can find the music alone on other videos or on their CD. I actually found the interview very interesting of how all this came about. I never would have known it otherwise. Very happy to listen to the interview and to the songs.

[CommentsSurvey]

I love this video and the interview and the music, all at the same time. I've been listening to it non-stop. It's a prayer in itself. THANK YOU for uploading!

[semrete]

GREAT WORKS, LOVE THE MUSIC...SHAME ABOUT THE TALKING WHICH DEFINITELY SPOILS IT ALL...

[bigowl9408]

Can we not have all the chat in the back ground as it soils the sound!

[MrGgg2009]

thnx a lot..great work

[szaraprzystan]

uwielbiam

[genderoma]

Just met wonderful Fiona T in Kristiansand, where she is the good spirit of the Punktfestival, here she offers a brilliant introduction for the third (and brilliant) work OFFICIUM NOVUM by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble. The music of this ensemble goes further and further and does not need a success formula. So, the horizons are wide open, move slightly to the East, and the interview parts of Fiona, Jan, Manfred and Gordon are very thoughtful.