Album info
Album-Release:
2021
HRA-Release:
05.03.2021
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Arvo Pärt (b. 1935):
- 1Pärt: Which Was the Son Of...07:46
- 2Pärt: Festina lente07:24
- 3Pärt: Tribute to Caesar05:46
- 4Pärt: Sequentia (Revised 2019 Version)07:17
- 5Pärt: The Deer’s Cry04:01
- 6Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 3, Miserere mei (Live)03:45
- 7Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 4, Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea (Live)01:41
- 8Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 5, Quoniam iniquitatem (Live)00:58
- 9Pärt: Miserere: Dies irae (Live)02:31
- 10Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 6, Tibi soli peccavi (Live)01:44
- 11Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 7, Ecce enim in inquitatibus (Live)01:07
- 12Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 8, Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti (Live)01:58
- 13Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 9, Asperges me hyssopo (Live)01:05
- 14Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 10, Auditui meo dabis (Live)01:08
- 15Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 11, Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis (Live)01:50
- 16Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 12, Cor mundum crea in me, Deus (Live)01:12
- 17Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 13, Ne proiicias me a facie tua (Live)01:05
- 18Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 14, Redde mihi laetitiam (Live)02:29
- 19Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 15, Docebo iniquos vias tuas (Live)00:40
- 20Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 16, Libera me de sanguinibus (Live)01:17
- 21Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 17, Domine, labia mea aperies (Live)00:58
- 22Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 18, Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium (Live)01:11
- 23Pärt: Miserere: Versus No, 19, Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus (Live)02:08
- 24Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 20, Benigne fac (Live)01:24
- 25Pärt: Miserere: Versus No. 21, Tunc acceptabis sacrificium (Live)01:29
- 26Pärt: Miserere: Rex tremendae (Live)02:31
- 27Pärt: And I Heard a Voice...05:29
Info for Arvo Pärt: Miserere (Live)
The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, born in 1935, has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience, and away from the confines of the church service, more than almost any other contemporary composer. The meditative character of his works, and his return to the simplest and most basic musical forms, convey moments of intense spirituality. Before his emigration from the Soviet Union, Pärt had already invented what he termed the tintinnabuli style of composition. He produced an early and important example of this expressive style in 1977 with his Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, scored for string orchestra and bell. It is also a key feature of the choral and instrumental works presented by BR-KLASSIK on this new album: five works for choir as well as two for instrumental ensemble, covering all of the composers creative epochs between 1986 and 2019. Alongside shorter a cappella choral works such as Tribute to Caesar (1997), Which Was the Son of... (2000), The Deer's Cry (2007) and Ja ma kuulsin hääle... (And I heard a voice) (2017), the highlight of this album almost 30 minutes in length and with its absolutely spectacular sound effects is the Miserere for soli, mixed voices, ensemble and organ (1989/1992). Ever since its premiere in 1989 in Rouen, France, and the recording by the Hilliard Ensemble under Paul Hillier, this is the first time a professional choir has dared undertake a production of this masterful composition a work conveying the growth, flourishing and transience of human existence in sound. Arvo Pärt had never heard some of these pieces sung by a full choir before - always only by a small ensemble. The impressive programme is rounded off by two instrumental works: Festina lente (1986/1990) for string orchestra and harp, and Sequentia (2014/2019) for violin, percussion and string orchestra.
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Österreichisches Ensemble für neue Musik
Howard Arman, conductor
Howard Arman
After two highly successful seasons with Howard Arman as its artistic director, Bavarian Radio and the conductor have decided ahead of time to extend his contract beyond 2019 to the end of the 2021 season.
Versatility is one of the principal artistic concerns of London-born conductor, chorus master and composer Howard Arman, who since the autumn of 2016 has been the artistic director of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. As a result he has made a name for himself in every area of classical music, no matter what the period, genre or form, from Baroque concertos performed according to the tenets of historically informed performance practice to choral symphonies, operas, jazz programmes and singalong concerts that he himself presents and that are designed to appeal to the widest possible audiences. For many years Howard Arman has been professor of orchestral conducting at the Lucerne School of Music.
Howard Arman studied at Trinity College of Music in London before working with a number of leading English ensembles and quickly extending his field of activity to mainland Europe. In Germany he has worked with the choirs of NDR, SWR and RIAS Berlin. From 1983 to 2000 he conducted the Salzburg Bach Choir and from 1998 to 2013 was artistic director of the MDR Choir in Leipzig. He first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1995. In addition to his international commitments as a choral and orchestral conductor he has also conducted acclaimed productions at opera houses in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.
He received the Handel Music Prize for reshaping the Handel Festival Orchestra on the occasion of its production of Orlando in 1996. From 2011 to July 2016 he was music director of the Lucerne Theatre. Among the opera productions that he conducted during that time were Handel’s Hercules, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Bizet’s Carmen and Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition he conducted Metamorphosen, a work of dance theatre featuring his own compositions, and the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Antilope.
Beginning in 2002 Howard Arman was a frequent guest conductor of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. As the chorus’s principal conductor, he has produced several Christmas Classics and the ‘cOHRwürmer’ sing-along concerts and expanded its programme to include Handel’s rarely heard Occasional Oratorio as well as Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Rossini’s Stabat mater, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and the Monteverdi Vespers.
Arman’s lengthy discography contains recordings of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil and Graun’s Der Tod Jesu. Among his CD recordings with the Bavarian Radio Chorus are Handel’s Occasional Oratorio, Mozart’s C-minor Mass, Mendelssohn’s psalms, the Bach motets and the Christmas programmes (More) Christmas Surprises and Joy to the World.