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Arvo Pärt - De Profundis - Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices
Classical | APE | 277MB
"Marx and Lenin probably would not have appreciated the irony, but after decades of Communist repression of
religion, the former Soviet bloc is the source of a profound outpouring of explicitly Christian expression. This is
manifested in the music of such composers as Henryk Gorecki, a Pole, and Arvo Pärt, an Estonian. Part, a refugee
from serialism, here writes in a quasi-minimalist style that he calls "tintinnabuli," a sound that echoes medieval
composition. A fan of vocal music ("The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all"), he uses choruses to
superb effect. This disc includes some of his best work, including the popular Magnificat, beautifully rendered by
the Theatre of Voices under Paul Hillier."
Sarah Bryan Miller - Amazon.com
Composer: Arvo Part
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Performer: Dan Kennedy, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, The Theatre of Voices
Audio CD: March 10, 1997
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Harmonia Mundi HMU907182
Amazon.com ASIN: B0000007FL
Tracklist
01 - De Profundis (Psalm 129)
02 - Missa Sillabica: Kyrie
03 - Missa Sillabica: Gloria
04 - Missa Sillabica: Credo
05 - Missa Sillabica: Sanctus
06 - Missa Sillabica: Angus Dei
07 - Missa Sillabica: Ite missa est
08 - Solfeggio
09 - 'And One Of The Pharisees'
10 - Cantate Domino (Psalm 95)
11 - Summa (Credo)
12 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Weisheit
13 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Adonai
14 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Spross
15 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Schlussel
16 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Morgenstern
17 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Konig
18 - Seven Magnificat Antiphons: O Immanuel
19 - The Beatitudes
20 - Magnificat
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Arvo Pärt - I Am The True Vine - Paul Hillier & Theatre of Voices
Classical | APE | 215MB
"If you're a fan of vocal music, you have to consider yourself fortunate that two of today's greatest living composers are masters of choral writing. Einojuhani Rautavaara and Arvo Pärt not only consider the uniquely expressive aspects of choral music to be worthy of serious creative exploration, but their music really thrives in this very special realm of words set to music. Of course, Pärt has devoted most of his compositional efforts of the past two decades to vocal music and although it can't be succinctly defined, has found a style that's clearly identifiable as his own. This CD features three world premieres, and at least one of them--I Am the True Vine (1996)--is a genuine masterpiece. Written for the 900th anniversary of England's Norwich Cathedral with a text from the Bible's book of John, this eight-minute piece carries its message with an irresistibly uplifting spirit, led by pure, potently concordant harmonies and insistent, soaring soprano punctuations. This is a piece that you want to hear again immediately after it ends--and it's primarily constructed from the simplest intervals of thirds, fifths, and sixths. In the same style the other two premiere works, The Woman With the Alabaster Box and Tribute to Caesar, both from 1997 with texts from the gospel of St. Matthew, make their own special impact, following Pärt's familiar homophonic, syllabic form, the phrasing as natural as human breath yet full of inflective power.
The program's "big" piece is yet another setting of Pärt's Berlin Mass, a 1997 revision for four voices and organ of the composer's 1990 original, but drawing from an intervening version for strings and chorus. It's a vocally formidable yet totally accessible and, in this version, liturgically functional work. Another remarkable piece is the program opener, Bogoróditse Djévo. Lasting barely more than one minute, this setting of the Ave Maria from the Orthodox Liturgy at first will surprise you because its lively, invigorating rhythmic movement is so unlike most of Pärt's typically more meditative writing. Here's a piece that, along with I Am the True Vine, should become standard repertoire for all first class choirs. And speaking of choirs, Paul Hillier's Pro Arte Singers are simply faultless in these works, demonstrating at every turn their mastery of the aspects of vocal technique, tone, expression, phrasing, blend, and ensemble unity and musicianship that determine choral supremacy. The sound, too, is ideal, benefiting both from masterful engineering and first-rate locations, including England's Ely Cathedral. Once again, Pärt has shown his listeners that simple tonal techniques and careful, caring attention to text still is the most effective way to convey meaning and emotion in choral music. You'll agree when you hear this; and hopefully so will those who dole out awards for best discs of the year." David Vernier - Classics Today.com
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Performer: Ellen Hargis, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, The Pro Arte Singers, Paul Hillier & The Theatre of Voices
Audio CD: March 14, 2000
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Harmonia Mundi HMU907242
Amazon.com ASIN: B00003Z9U9
Tracklist
01 - Bogoróditse Djévo
02 - I Am the True Vine
03 - Ode IX, from Kanon pokajanen
04 - The Woman With the Alabaster Box
05 - Tribute to Caesar
06 - Berliner Messe - Kyrie
07 - Berliner Messe - Gloria
08 - Berliner Messe - Erster Alleluiavers
09 - Berliner Messe - Zweiter Alleluiavers
10 - Berliner Messe - Veni Sancte Spiritus
11 - Berliner Messe - Credo
12 - Berliner Messe - Sanctus
13 - Berliner Messe - Agnus dei
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Arvo Pärt - A Tribute - Paul Hillier & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Classical | APE | 254MB
"Anyone who has followed choral music during the past 30 years--and especially the last couple of decades--knows
at least some of the works of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. This compilation features a fair selection of his more
recent (primarily a cappella) pieces from the 1990s--but if you already own the earlier recordings from which these
are drawn, you'll find a nice bonus here: the newly recorded Dopo la vittoria (Following the victory). This substantial
(11-minute) "picola cantata", premiered in 1997, tells of St. Ambrose and his famous hymn Te Deum. No doubt this
lively (some parts sound like folk-dance) and dramatically varied work--another masterpiece of text-explication and
expressive use of vocal color and texture--will gain many performances and enthusiastic audiences, joining Pärt
favorites such as Bogoroditse Djevo, Magnificat, and the Berliner Messe.
Although it's these latter two works that perhaps are most closely identified with Pärt's unique "tintinnabuli" style--the
endlessly resonating triads and undulating, register-shifting consonances and dissonances--The woman with the alabaster
box and I am the true vine may be his most purely, fundamentally beautiful compositions, melodically, harmonically, and
from the standpoint of choral sound and texture. Whatever your preference, this is important and profoundly moving
music in which almost anyone can find meaning, even spiritual resonance. The performances are uniformly excellent,
even essential, and the recordings couldn't be better. This tribute to Pärt on his 70th birthday is an absolute joy."
David Vernier - Classics Today.com
Composer: Arvo Part
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Elizabeth Engan
Audio CD: August 9, 2005
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Harmonia Mundi HMU907407
Amazon.com ASIN: B0009QXWZU
Tracklist
01 - Dopo La Vittoria
02 - The Woman With The Alabaster Box
03 - Kyrie
04 - Gloria
05 - First Alleluia Verse
06 - Second Alleluia Verse
07 - Veni Sancte Spiritus
08 - Credo
09 - Sanctus
10 - Agnus Dei
11 - Solfeggio
12 - Magnificat
13 - Bogoroditse Djevo
14 - I Am The True Vine
15 - Which Was The Son Of...
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Arvo Pärt - Da Pacem - Paul Hillier & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Classical | APE | 277MB
"If you know the choral music of Arvo Pärt and are familiar with Paul Hillier's previous performances and recordings of Pärt's works, it's no surprise that this current release is another first-rate effort in all respects. However, I must admit that on first glance at a new Pärt disc I'm often confused by the list of works. I think I've seen and heard some or all of them before, on the last release, on the one before that--and indeed, Pärt justifiably has been a favorite of a handful of conductors and choirs, from Hillier's Hilliard Ensemble (ECM), Theatre of Voices (Harmonia Mundi), and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (also with Tonu Kaljuste), to Stephen Layton's Polyphony (Hyperion) and Noel Edison's Elora Festival Singers (Naxos). And on closer inspection, certain pieces--Magnificat, Salve Regina, Nunc dimittis, I am the True Vine, De Profundis, Bogoroditse Djevo, and Dopo la vittoria--have received favored attention on many recordings, even by the same choirs on different releases. Even the present program features one track from 2004, the increasingly popular Dopo la vittoria, that also appeared on last year's Arvo Pärt--A Tribute (type Q9172 in Search Reviews).
But, in addition to new material, Hillier also offers new versions of works he's recorded before with other groups, such as Magnificat and An den Wassern zu Babel. Among the most recent works, the title track, Da pacem Domine (2004), is as near-perfect an evocation of text as the composer has ever achieved--and typically he does this not through any overt gesture, but through more subtle techniques, including an almost complete subordination of rhythmic influence and the relegation of melody to a more or less implied presence, thus forming both his framework and expressive fabric from the most elemental materials--sonority, voicing, and rudimentary harmonies. The harmonies slowly shift and turn and change color, and there's a true sense of direction--but there is no discernible tempo or metrical pattern; rather, the music's effect is made over longer, larger stretches of space and time, the sensation of movement like the deep, easy rise-and-fall breathing of some great yet placid being. (Or perhaps the feeling of motion and the music's concurrent changes in hue and texture could be compared to looking across a plain from a moving car to distant mountains, their shapes gradually changing, and the shifting light and perspective creating continually varied shadows and shades of color.) Importantly, the periodic open-ended, unresolved soprano interjections throughout the piece are an ingeniously effective illustration of the prayer's air of both uncertainty and profound hope.
There are many more worthy moments and highlights here--just waiting for each listener to discover. But to describe them all would also be to unduly focus on another aspect of Pärt's writing--a kind of subliminal sameness that's both reassuring and hypnotic, but that also becomes a distraction, its relative importance exaggerated when listening to an entire disc of similar-styled works at one sitting. The bias toward minor thirds in both melodic and harmonic contexts, the pervasive use of antiphonal choral effects, the chord inversions that give a sense of suspended time, the slow-moving harmonic changes unbound by traditional metrical or temporal constraints--all of these in some way define Pärt's post-1976 music. But ultimately, the proof is in receptive, unanalytical listening, and no matter how many times you hear Pärt's works, each time you're somehow carried beyond an expected esthetic experience to a more spiritual place--whether you want to be or not. And that's something Hillier and his singers know well, evidenced by their pure, unadorned affirmations of this eloquently plain music. Other composers have tried to achieve this kind of elegance and simplicity (John Tavener has tried and failed time and time again), but Pärt has the artistic sincerity, integrity, and skill to fully realize it."
David Vernier - Classics Today.com
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Audio CD: September 12, 2006
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Harmonia Mundi HMU907401
Amazon.com ASIN: B000H0MGUU
Tracklist
1. Da Pacem Domine
2. Salve Regina
3. Psalm 117
4. Psalm 131
5. Magnificat
6. An Den Wassern Zu Babel
7. Dopo La Vittoria
8. Nunc Dimittis
9. Littlemore Tractus
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