Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble: Officium CD
The eagerly awaited third album by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, while characteristically wide ranging in inspirational sources, has an "Orient/Occident" bias, with a special focus on music of Armenia and the compositions and arrangements of Komitas. The Hilliards studied Komitas’s pieces, which draw upon both medieval sacred music and the bardic tradition of the Caucasus in the course of their visits to Armenia, and the modes of the music encourage some of Garbarek’s most impassioned and lyrical playing.
Tracklist:
1. Parce mihi domine
2. Primo tempore
3. Sanctus
4. Regnantem sempiterna
5. O salutaris hostia
6. Procedentem sponsum
7. Pulcherrima rosa
8. Parce mihi domine
9. Beata viscera
10. De spineto nata rosa
11. Credo
12. Ave maris stella
13. Virgo flagellatur
14. Oratio leremiae
15. Parce mihi domine