Gregorianische Gesänge "Dialogues" (CD)

Jiri Barta, David Eben, Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

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Artists:: Jiri Barta, Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, David Eben
Label:: Supraphon
Year of recording ca.:: 2009
Item number:: 5719039
UPC/EAN:: 0099925400927
Release date:: 20.8.2010

Zu einem „Dialog“ zwischen Altem und Modernem, zwischen Gesang und Instrumentalmusik laden die Schola Gregoriana Pragensis und Jiri Barta ein. Gregorianische Choräle werden durch Cello-Solowerke abgelöst. Chor undCello, bzw. Celli finden dann zusammen in Werken von Pavel Szymanski (geb. 1954) sowie in Arvo Pärts berühmten Werk „Fratres“. So schließt sich harmonisch der Kreis des Dialoges, den die Künstler bereits mit großem Erfolg auf Konzertbühnen dargeboten haben.

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The renowned ensemble Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and the leading Czech cellist Jiri Barta have been pursuing dialogues on concert stages for a number of years. They share abundant experience of music both early and contemporary, improvisation and seeking. The fruit of their encounters is a recording that is a multilayered dialogue between the sonorous sound of the cello and the male voice, a dialogue between the chorale and medieval polyphony and the creation of the past few decades, music written and improvised. The idea of "mirroring the past in the present" is the overarching theme connecting pieces by contemporary composers. Peter Graham's Suite for Cello Solo reveals his having been inspired by Bach solo suites. The contemporary musical phraseology and the Gregorian tradition are originally interconnected in the meditative composition Miserere by the Polish creator Paweł Szymański, while the structure of Arvo Pärt's famous piece Fratres is a sort of reminiscence of medieval polyphony. The music, in places verging on silence, affords the listener scope for inner soothing and perception of fine nuances that often remain concealed to us in the turbulent world around.

Reviews

FonoForum 08/11: "Er ermöglicht einen durchaus reizvollen Dialog von Alt und Neu, stellt gregorianische Choräle neben Neue Musik, kontrastiert moderne Cellosolostücke mit mittelalterlicher Vokalmusik. Die zeitgenössischen Stücke atmen den kontemplativen Charakter der Alten Musik, sind manchmal nicht nur von ihr beseelt, sondern in direkter Verschränkung mit ihr konzipiert."