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Artist: Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve - Cyrillus Kreek
Title: Cyrillus Kreek - The Suspended Harp of Babel
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: ECM New Series
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, booklet) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 69:41
Total Size: 296 MB / 1.20 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. The Sun Shall Not Smite Thee (3:05)
2. Whilst Great Is Our Poverty (5:18)
3. Jacob's Dream / Orthodox Vespers: Proemial Psalm (11:56)
4. From Heaven Above to Earth I Come (5:57)
5. Bless the Lord, My Soul (2:26)
6. Awake, My Heart (6:53)
7. Orthodox Vespers : Praise the Name of the Lord (2:21)
8. Do the Birds Worry? (5:06)
9. Lord, I Cry unto Thee (2:27)
10. He, Who Lets God Prevail (3:55)
11. By the Rivers of Babylon (5:36)
12. The Last Dance (2:39)
13. O Jesus, Thy Pain / Dame, vostre doulz viaire (Arr. M. Ambrosini and Eller) (12:07)
Vox Clamantis, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, has established itself as Estonia’s foremost small vocal ensemble, at home in the worlds of both old and new music. Their ECM New Series discography, accordingly, has ranged from Gregorian chant and Perotin (as on "Filia Sion") to present-day composers including Arvo Pärt ("The Deer’s Cry"), Erkki-Sven Tüür ("Oxymoron") and Helena Tulve ("Arboles lloran por lluvia"). On "The Suspended Harp of Babel" Vox Clamantis turns its attention to Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962), whose work also took nourishment from ancient sources as well as from contemporaneous musical currents.
One of the innovators of choral music in Estonia, Kreek drew extensively upon folk music and was a pioneer in the documentation of it, recording, transcribing and preserving for posterity hundreds of songs, both sacred and secular. His arrangements of these folk songs and folk hymns, as well as his settings of psalms, provided a bedrock for choirs in an idiom of his own, described by Paul Griffiths in the liner notes here as “restrained and yet glowing”. Cyrillus Kreek, born in the village of Saanika, was a contemporary of Arvo Pärt’s teacher Heino Eller, and both studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the years before the First World War. Kreek’s music, emphasizing simplicity, clarity, and the natural quality of the human voice, influenced many composers in Estonia including Veljo Tormis (who also creatively deployed folk song in choral contexts) and Tõnu Kõrvits. The quietly radiant aura of his work is enhanced on the present recording by the contributions of Marco and Angela Ambrosini playing nyckelharpa and by Anna-Liisa Eller on kannel, the Estonian zither.
Marco Ambrosini’s preludes and interludes imaginatively extend the spirit of Kreek’s pieces and in the case of Kui suur on meie vaesus ("Whilst great is our poverty"), call the music forth, the nyckelharpa drone summoning the kannel to pick out the melody of the folk hymn, preparing the way for the entrance of the singers. Throughout the album the purity of the voices is striking – the liner notes speak of “voices with the transparency of spring water”.
Kreek’s music is celebrated in Estonia with a yearly festival, and there is a museum dedicated to the composer in Haapsalu. Documentation of his work outside his homeland has, however, been scant to date. "The Suspended Harp of Babel" – valuable both as entry point into Cyrillus Kreek’s sound-world and for its pre-echoes of Estonian music to come - is likely to trigger overdue recognition for a unique composer and researcher.
This recording was made in April 2018 in Tallinn’s Transfiguration Church.
Vox Clamantis - Choir
Jaan-Eik Tulve - Conductor
Anna-Liisa Eller - Kannel
Angela Ambrosini - Nyckelharpa
Marco Ambrosini - Nyckelharpa
艺术家:呼喊之声合唱团(Vox Clamantis)、扬-艾克·图尔韦 - 西里卢斯·克里克(Cyrillus Kreek)
专辑名称:《西里卢斯·克里克 - 巴别塔上悬停的竖琴》
发行年份:2020年
厂牌:ECM新系列(ECM New Series)
音乐类型:古典音乐
音质:FLAC分轨格式(含.cue文件、日志、小册子) / 24比特-96千赫兹FLAC分轨格式(含小册子)
总时长:69分41秒
总大小:296兆字节(FLAC普通格式) / 1.20吉字节(24比特-96千赫兹FLAC格式)
网站:专辑预览
曲目列表
1. 《太阳不会击打你》(3分05秒)
2. 《尽管我们极度贫穷》(5分18秒)
3. 《雅各的梦》/《东正教晚祷:开篇诗篇》(11分56秒)
4. 《从天堂到人间我来了》(5分57秒)
5. 《我的灵魂啊,你要称颂耶和华》(2分26秒)
6. 《醒来吧,我的心》(6分53秒)
7. 《东正教晚祷:赞美主的圣名》(2分21秒)
8. 《鸟儿会忧虑吗?》(5分06秒)
9. 《主啊,我向你呼求》(2分27秒)
10. 《让上帝得胜的人》(3分55秒)
11. 《在巴比伦的河边》(5分36秒)
12. 《最后的舞蹈》(2分39秒)
13. 《哦,耶稣,你的痛苦》/《夫人,你甜美的面容》(由M. 安布罗西尼和埃勒改编)(12分07秒)
在扬-艾克·图尔韦的指挥下,呼喊之声合唱团已成为爱沙尼亚首屈一指的小型声乐团体,无论是在古老音乐还是现代音乐领域都游刃有余。相应地,他们在ECM新系列的唱片作品范围广泛,从格列高利圣咏和佩罗坦的作品(如《锡安的女儿》中所示)到当代作曲家的作品,包括阿尔沃·派尔特(《鹿之啼》)、埃尔基-斯文·蒂厄尔(《矛盾修饰法》)和海伦娜·图尔韦(《哭泣求雨的树》)。在《巴别塔上悬停的竖琴》这张专辑中,呼喊之声合唱团将注意力转向了西里卢斯·克里克(1889-1962),他的作品既从古代音乐源泉中汲取养分,也受到同时代音乐潮流的影响。
作为爱沙尼亚合唱音乐的创新者之一,克里克广泛借鉴民间音乐,并且是记录民间音乐的先驱,他录制、转录并为后人保存了数百首圣歌和世俗歌曲。他对这些民间歌曲和民间赞美诗的改编,以及他为赞美诗所谱的曲,为合唱团提供了一种独特风格的基础,保罗·格里菲斯在专辑内页注释中形容这种风格为“克制却又充满光辉”。西里卢斯·克里克出生在萨尼卡村,是阿尔沃·派尔特的老师海诺·埃勒的同时代人,两人都在第一次世界大战前的几年里就读于圣彼得堡音乐学院。克里克的音乐强调简洁、清晰以及人类声音的自然特质,影响了许多爱沙尼亚的作曲家,包括维尔约·托尔米斯(他也在合唱作品中创造性地运用了民间歌曲)和托努·科尔维茨。在这张专辑的录制中,马可和安吉拉·安布罗西尼演奏的尼克尔哈帕琴(瑞典键琴),以及安娜-利萨·埃勒演奏的卡内尔琴(爱沙尼亚齐特琴),为他作品中宁静而闪耀的氛围增添了色彩。
马可·安布罗西尼的前奏和间奏富有想象力地延续了克里克作品的精神。以《尽管我们极度贫穷》为例,尼克尔哈帕琴的持续低音召唤着卡内尔琴奏出民间赞美诗的旋律,为歌手的演唱做好铺垫。在整张专辑中,歌声的纯净度令人瞩目——内页注释中形容这些声音“如春天的泉水般清澈透明”。
在爱沙尼亚,每年都会举办一个节日来庆祝克里克的音乐,并且在哈普萨卢有一座专门为这位作曲家设立的博物馆。然而,到目前为止,在他的祖国之外,对他作品的记录却很少。《巴别塔上悬停的竖琴》——无论是作为进入西里卢斯·克里克音乐世界的切入点,还是因为它预示了爱沙尼亚未来音乐的发展方向,都极有可能引发人们对这位独特的作曲家和研究者应有的认可,这种认可早已姗姗来迟。
这张专辑于2018年4月在塔林的变形教堂录制。
呼喊之声合唱团 - 合唱团
扬-艾克·图尔韦 - 指挥
安娜-利萨·埃勒 - 卡内尔琴
安吉拉·安布罗西尼 - 尼克尔哈帕琴
马可·安布罗西尼 - 尼克尔哈帕琴
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