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Officium Novum

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Officium Novum
Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 20, 2010 (2010-09-20)
RecordedJune 2009
StudioPropstei Sankt Gerold
Sankt Gerold, Austria
GenreJazz, Early music
Length61:03
LabelECM New Series
ECM New Series 2125
ProducerManfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
Dresden
(2009)
Officium Novum
(2010)
Magico: Carta de Amor
(2012)

Officium Novum is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble recorded in Austria in June 2009 and released on ECM in September the following year.[1] The album is a sequel to their 1994 collaboration Officium.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The AllMusic review by Stephen Eddins states "Like the first album, this one is suffused with a sense of distant mystery and a profound, powerful melancholy that is given voice with intense feeling. The sound again is spacious and warmly resonant, with an earthy, enveloping ambience. This album will be a must-have for anyone who loved the first one, and it should appeal to any listener with an affinity for meditative Eastern European spirituality, especially when tied to contemporary expressivity and stylistic freedom."[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Jan Garbarek except as indicated

  1. "Ov Zarmanali" (Komitas) – 4:11
  2. "Svjete Tihij" (Traditional) – 4:14
  3. "Allting Finns" – 4:18
  4. "Litany: Litany/Otche Nash/Otche Nash" (Nikolai N. Kedrov/Traditional/Anonymous) – 13:06
  5. "Surb, Surb" (Komitas) – 6:40
  6. "Most Holy Mother of God" (Arvo Pärt) – 4:34
  7. "Tres Morillas M’enamoran" (Anonymous) – 3:32
  8. "Sirt Im Sasani" (Komitas) – 4:06
  9. "Hays Hark Nviranats Ukhti" (Komitas) – 6:25
  10. "Alleluia Nativitas" (Pérotin) – 5:20
  11. "We Are the Stars" – 4:09
  12. "Nur Ein Weniges Noch" (Giorgos Seferis) – 0:19

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ ECM discography Archived 2010-09-21 at the Wayback Machine accessed December 4, 2013
  2. ^ a b Eddins, S. Allmusic Review accessed December 4, 2013