Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek
Mnemosyne
Jan Garbarek tenor or soprano saxophones
Jan Garbarek
David James countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor
John Potter tenor
Gordon Jones baritone
Quechua Sing
O Lords in Thee is all My Trust
Estonian Lullaby
Remember Me My Dear
Gloria
Fayrfax Africanus
Agnus Dei
Novus novus
Se je fayz dueil
O ignis spiritus
Alleluia nativitatis
Delphic Paean
Strophe and Counter-Strophe
Mascardaes
Loiterando
Estonian Lullaby
Russian Psalm
Eagle Dance
When Jesus Wept
Hymn To The Sun
Recorded April 1998
ECM New Series 1700
Hintergrund
Background
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Five years after the recording of "Officium", the
Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek returned to the monastery of St Gerold
to renew, in the words of singer John Potter, their "encounter with the
unknown." The resultant, very beautiful, double-album, "Mnemosyne", is
wider in scope than its predecessor, and the improvised component of the
music is expanded. Repertoire now spans 22 centuries, from the "Delphic
Paean" of Athenaeus to the "Estonian Lullaby" of Veljo Tormis, via folk
song fragments from North and South America and Spain, freely developed, as
well as pieces by Tallis, Dufay, Brumel, Hildegard von Bingen, Jan
Garbarek, a Russian psalm, a Scottish ballad of the 16th century, and much
more. "We did it for each other in the absence of an audience, and these
are complete one-off performances which will never sound the same again."
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