Officium, Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble, CD, 1994

Description: Officium, Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble, CD. Photos are of the CD , inlay and jewel case you will receive, shipped via media mail. The track list is in the last photo. Officium is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and British male vocal quartet Hilliard Ensemble recorded at the monastery of Propstei St. Gerold in Austria in September 1993 and released on ECM the following year. Brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, this collaboration - based on 12th- to 16th-century liturgical works by composers including Cristóbal de Morales and Perotinus Magnus - has become one of the most successful releases on the ECM label, achieving sales of more than 1.5 million. "What is this music?" Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music, which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful, often astonishing, saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, these new melodies simply accompany; sometimes they transform the common--a routine minor chord, for instance--into a sublime, indescribable moment. The answer to the above question is easy, but it's different for each listener. David Vernier

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