Description
Arvo Pärt – Berliner Mass, Magnificat, Seven Magnificat Antiphons, De Profundis, The Beatitudes / Polyphony, Stephen Layton / Hyperion Audio CD 1998 / CDA 66960
UPC 034571169606
Product Details:
Label: Hyperion – CDA66960
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Classical
Total Time: 73:34
Description:
Here is some of the most spiritually uplifting music of our generation, sung by that most virtuosic of choirs, Polyphony. Arvo Pärt (paralleled in England by John Tavener) has succeeded in capturing the attention of a broad public through his consummate ability to weave a sense of inevitable power into music of fundamental simplicity. The impressive Berlin Mass which opens the disc was written in 1990, the Credo being a fascinating major-key reworking of the earlier minor-mode Summa; very much an expression of joy at the lifting of the Soviet embargo on ‘sacred’ music in Estonia. Annum per Annum is a monumental work for solo organ and is here performed on the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral: a thoroughly exhilarating experience. The disc ends with the masterpiece De profundis. This most powerful of texts draws from Pärt an inexorable momentum from a beginning almost out of nothing to a devastating climax.
Tracklist:
| Berliner Messe | (25:51) | |
| 1 | Kyrie | 3:22 |
| 2 | Gloria | 3:39 |
| 3 | Erster Alleluiavers | 0:53 |
| 4 | Zweiter Alleluiavers | 1:05 |
| 5 | Veni Sacte Spiritus | 5:29 |
| 6 | Credo | 3:47 |
| 7 | Sanctus | 3:18 |
| 8 | Agnus Dei | 2:57 |
| 9 | The Beatitudes | 6:50 |
|
Annum per Annum |
(11:10) |
|
| 10 | Einleitung | 1:15 |
| 11 | K(yrie) | 1:46 |
| 12 | G(loria) | 1:34 |
| 13 | C(redo) | 1:38 |
| 14 | S(anctus) | 1:39 |
| 15 | A(gnus) | 2:53 |
| 16 | Coda | 1:00 |
| 17 | Magnificat | 6:56 |
|
Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen |
(14:53) |
|
| 18 |
1 0 Weisheit | 1:57 |
| 19 | 2 0 Adonai | 2:18 |
| 20 | 3 0 Spraß aus Isais Wurzel | 1:06 |
| 21 | 4 0 Schlüssel Davids | 2:30 |
| 22 | 5 0 Morgenstern | 2:23 |
| 23 | 6 0 König aller Völker | 1:15 |
| 24 | 7 0 Immanuel | 3:05 |
| 25 | De Profundis | 7:16 |
More Details:
- Chorus – Polyphony
- Composed By – Arvo Pärt
- Conductor – Stephen Layton
- Organ – Andrew Lucas
- Recorded in Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, on 10, 11 January 1997 and in St. Paul's Cathedral, London (Annum per Annum) on 6 January 1998.
(P) & (C) Hyperion Records, Ltd., London, MCMXCVIII
