Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve – Music by Henrik Ødegaard (2023)
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On this newest endeavour, the Vox Clamantis choir, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, turns its attention towards Norwegian composer Henrik Odegaard with a fine-drawn programme of liturgical choral music.
In a subtle sleight of hand, Odegaard’s compositions interweave Gregorian chant with Norwegian folk song. The composer employs Gregorian and paschal hymns as source material, from which he then draws his own polyphonic layers and extensions. The main work here is the eight-part Meditations over St. Mary Magdalene’s Feast in Nidaros, based on antiphons found in a 13th-century manuscript from medieval Scandinavia. Odegaard’s compositional process transfigures these antiphons, sensitively brought to light by Vox Clamantis.
On past ECM recordings, the choir has addressed works of Arvo Part, Erkki-Sven Tuur and most recently Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek – an acclaimed recording, which BBC described as “magic of another sphere”.
The album was recorded at the St. Nicholas Dome in Haapsalu, Estonia in March 2021.
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Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve – Sacrum convivium (2018)
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“Sacrum Convivium” presents a vision of French music over two millennia: from Gregorian chant through Guillaume de Machaut’s extraordinary ‘Lai de Nostre Dame’ to the Twentieth Century of Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, all three of them influenced in some way by the spirituality and sensibility of Gregorian chant, which Messiaen himself described as “the greatest treasure we possess in western music.”
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Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve – Cyrillus Kreek – The Suspended Harp of Babel (2020)
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Vox Clamantis, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, has established itself as Estonia’s foremost small vocal ensemble, at home in the worlds of both old and new music. Their ECM New Series discography, accordingly, has ranged from Gregorian chant and Perotin (as on “Filia Sion”) to present-day composers including Arvo Pärt (“The Deer’s Cry”), Erkki-Sven Tüür (“Oxymoron”) and Helena Tulve (“Arboles lloran por lluvia”). On “The Suspended Harp of Babel” Vox Clamantis turns its attention to Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962), whose work also took nourishment from ancient sources as well as from contemporaneous musical currents.
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