New Spirituality
A tremendous amount of emotional impact from this incredibly simple music. In the cold war numerous composers like Martynov, Svriridov and Pärt became interested in the brand of minimalism developing in the Soviet Union in the late 1970s: a static, spiritually-inspired style without the shimmering pulse of American minimalism. The timeless quality of chants and the lack of a sense of bar lines in Renaissance polyphony entered into their version of minimalism and they began composing works that take on large Christian themes like Passion, Lamentations, Paradise, Death and Mercy. The upshot of all this is to demonstrate the brilliance of this kind of compositional minimalism. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Throughout all ages the ancient religious texts have inspired composers, each time finding new ways of expressing universal emotions about life and death. This recording contains sacred choral music by world famous Arvo Pärt (Magnificat), Sviridov, Schnittke, Chesnokov and Miskinis. They search for inner power, in their mysterious, stark melodic lines and open harmonies. Young French choir Les Métaboles (they exist only 4 years) display an astonishing homogeneity and pureness, intense and serene, the perfect ensemble for these sublime and moving choral works!
The Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1988, 1991) employs fewer notes in the service of a more austere soundworld, one which may cast the listener back to the vast spaces of a medieval cathedral and the daily offices held therein. It exercises an immense power upon any receptive listener, and this recording is sure to capture the imagination of Pärt’s many followers worldwide. Under its founder-director Krijn Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche has won international acclaim for its complete recording of Monteverdi’s madrigals, a project over a decade in the making and which has recently been released complete for the first time by Brilliant Classics (BC95661).
The organ plays a central role in The Beatitudes: granite slabs of sound come into focus over unyielding pedal notes, the message intensified in the silences. Intensity rises with pitch until the music is torn apart by the organ at the concluding Amen. As follow-up on their successful Duruflé recording (BC9264) the splendid Leeds Cathedral Choir, conductor Benjamin Saunders and organist Daniel Justin present Beatitudes by Arvo Pärt, the iconic Estonian master of New Spirituality.
Tracklist:
Les Métaboles & Léo Warynski (conductor):
0:00:00 Sviridov: Mysterious Nativity
0:04:40 Pärt: Magnificat (Lorraine Tisserant (soprano))
Tchesnokov: Three Sacred Songs, Op. 43:
0:11:37 I. De profundis
0:17:51 II. Miserere
0:20:29 III. Pater noster
0:23:14 Miskinis: O salutaris hostia
0:27:29 Tchesnokov: Ave verum corpus, Op. 67 (Cécile Pierrot (soprano))
Schnittke: Three Sacred Hymns:
0:33:14 I. Hail Mary, Full of Grace
0:34:46 I. Lord Jesus (Gospodi lisuse)
0:36:33 I. Our Father (Otche nash)
0:39:21 Sviridov: Holy God (Sviatyï Boje)
Pärt: Maria Antifonen played by Le Nuove Musiche, Krijn Koetsveld (conductor) & Wendy Roobol (soprano):
0:43:33 I. O Weisheit
0:44:38 II. O Adonai
0:46:41 III. O Spross aus Isias Wurzel
0:47:38 IV. O Schlüssel Davids
0:49:20 V. O Morgenstern
0:51:01 VI. O König aller Völker
0:52:30 VII. O Immanuel
Poulenc: Quatre petites prières de St. François d'Assise, FP 142 played by Corydon Singers, Matthew Best (conductor) & Richard Pearce (organ):
0:54:55 No. 1, Salut, dame sainte
0:57:21 No. 2, Tout puissant, très saint
0:58:48 No. 3, Seigneur, je vous en prie
1:00:26 No. 4, O mes très chers frères
1:02:11 Pärt: The Beatitudes played by Daniel Justin (organ), Leeds Cathedral Choir & Benjamin Saunders (conductor)
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