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Arvo Pärt: Stabat


A crystalline simplicity' Encompassing works by Arvo Pärt (Estonia), Pēteris Vasks (Latvia), and James MacMillan (a native of Scotland), this album charts the evolution of choral music in three regions of Northern Europe that saw the rise of a startling new language beginning in the 1980s. Its subsequent development has had far-reaching implications well beyond the staid confines of the house of worship or the serial techniques current at the time. The spiritual focus of this trio of trail-blazers resonates with many of today's composers, a dimension that has not escaped their listeners or, for that matter, Graham Ross, the enterprising director of music at Clare College, Cambridge. When he moved away from serial techniques at the end of the 1960s, having undergone something of a spiritual and artistic transformation, Arvo Pärt turned to the choral tradition of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance for inspiration. From this period of intense study emerged the masterpieces inaugurating his now unmistakable style: the refined, timeless soundworld of "tintinnabulation." Suspended in space, this music receives a profoundly spiritual reading from Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, that could make a convert of the toughest sceptic.

'Une lumière blanche' Entre l'Estonie d'Arvo Pärt, la Lettonie de Pēteris Vasks et l'Ecosse natale de James MacMillan, cet album explore ces musiques chorales venues du nord au tournant des années 1970-80. Une écriture extraordinairement nouvelle dont les résonances stratosphériques n'ont que faire des conservatismes de la liturgie ou du sérialisme ambiant. Elles incarnent les aspirations spirituelles de bon nombre des compositeurs d'aujourd'hui, une dimension qui n'a pas plus échappé à leurs contemporains qu'au valeureux directeur musical du Clare College de Cambridge, Graham Ross. Lorsqu'il abandonne le sérialisme au tournant des années 1970, doublement frappé d'une crise mystique et d'inspiration, Arvo Pärt se tourne vers la tradition chorale du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance. De cette période de recherche foisonnante naîtront des chefs-d'œuvre, inaugurant un univers sonore inédit, intemporel, "tintinabulant" jusqu'à l'épure. Une écriture en suspension dont l'interprétation tout en spiritualité de Graham Ross et du Clare College nous mettrait presque à genoux…
 
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ChoirChoir of Clare College, Cambridge
ConductorGraham Ross
ComposerArvo Part
James MacMillan
Peteris Vasks
PerformerGeorgina Gulliver
Helena Mackie
Isaac Barnham
Jamie Campbell
Joshua Cleary
Oliver Coates
Rebecca McElroy
Toby Hession
EnsembleThe Dmitri Ensemble

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