The Hilliard Ensemble
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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. —
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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Officium
A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone.
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)
Hilliard Ensemble
no matter how one views so-called crossover...or the relative unwisdom of sticking to rigid musical boundaries, the evidence remains conclusive: ''Officium'' successfully transcends any limitations... —
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Special offer. John Casken: The Dream of the Rood
The Hilliard Ensemble, Asko, Schönberg Ensemble, Clark Rundell
The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Officium Novum: Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
Jan Garbarek (soprano & tenor saxophones)
The Hilliard Ensemble (David James, countertenor, Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor, Steven Harrold, Gordon Jones, baritone)
Over the immanent, limpid voices Garbarek improvises equally immaculate counter-melodies. His contributions tend to be somewhat predictable, more decoration than improvisation in the fullest... —
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Music making of the highest order. Everything shows them at their superb best —
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as Poppen plays one of the greatest movements for violin ever composed, the Hilliards sing the chorale quotations, showing how they fit alongside the solo line. It must have been extremely difficult... —
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Arvo Pärt - Musica Selecta
A Sequence By Manfred Eicher
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Vladimir Mendelssohn (viola), Alexander Malter (piano), Keith Jarrett (piano), Vox Clamantis, Saulius Sondeckis (violin/conductor), Latvian Radio Choir, Swedish Radio Choir, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Alexei Lubimov (piano), Lynne Dawson...
For this excellent two-CD compendium, the producer Manfred Eicher has selected pieces from the recordings he has made over the past 30 years. It’s a perfect introduction to Pärt’s work, ranging... —
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Symmetry, the cyclic evolution of a musical germ and the idea of birth in the midst of death: all are fundamental to this disc. Webern's motivically determined orchestration of the Ricercar... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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