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Vita Nova includes four pieces by Bryars in which ECM appeared to be, at least partially, attempting to cash in on the new age-y vogue of the early '90s for the sort of quasi-medieval music made relatively popular by assorted singing monks, Arvo Pärt, and the Hilliard Ensemble with Jan Garbarek. Indeed, that latter group is on hand here to perform "Glorious Hill," and the results are as blandly attractive as the listener might guess given the following recipe: Take a mushily mystical text (in Latin), set to vaguely medieval sounding music, and spice with a dash of chromaticism and a pinch of minimalism. It's all handsomely produced and sung but terribly precious and overly palatable. How far Bryars had come from the rich reality of the tramp singing "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" in his masterpiece from the '70s. Unfortunately, the remainder of the disc also fails to deliver much more than prettiness. The longest composition, "Four Elements," falls into the same gauzily impressionistic, rudderless rut of much of his '90s work, and the introduction of David James, the same countertenor used in "Incipit Vita Nova," seems tacked on just to fit in with the ostensible "medieval" feel of the album. The same applies to the use of a recorder on the final piece, "Sub Rosa." That work, however, does contain glimmers of the unique beauty and clarity of Bryars' earlier work as found on Hommages. But those instances are far too meager to be able to recommend this recording to anyone but listeners attempting to slowly crawl their way out of the new age morass.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
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Incipit Vita Nova (Gavin Bryars)
Trad., Author - David James, Counter-Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jan Erik Kongshaug, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Gavin Bryars, Composer - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gavin Bryars String Trio, Ensemble, MainArtist
℗ 1994 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Glorious Hill (Gavin Bryars)
David James, Counter-Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Jan Erik Kongshaug, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - John Potter, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Rogers Covey-Crump, Tenor, AssociatedPerformer - Gordon Jones, Baritone, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - The Hilliard Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Gavin Bryars, Composer - Pico della Mirandola, Author - Peter Länger, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Four Elements (Gavin Bryars)
Jan Erik Kongshaug, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Gavin Bryars, Composer - Chris Ekers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Sub Rosa (Gavin Bryars)
John White, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jan Erik Kongshaug, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alexander Balanescu, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Manfred Eicher, Producer - Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Ensemble, MainArtist - Gavin Bryars, Composer, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Heaton, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Allen, Vibraphone, AssociatedPerformer - Jamie McCarthy, Recorder, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Ekers, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1994 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Universal Music Classics & Jazz - a division of Universal Music GmbH
Chronique
Vita Nova includes four pieces by Bryars in which ECM appeared to be, at least partially, attempting to cash in on the new age-y vogue of the early '90s for the sort of quasi-medieval music made relatively popular by assorted singing monks, Arvo Pärt, and the Hilliard Ensemble with Jan Garbarek. Indeed, that latter group is on hand here to perform "Glorious Hill," and the results are as blandly attractive as the listener might guess given the following recipe: Take a mushily mystical text (in Latin), set to vaguely medieval sounding music, and spice with a dash of chromaticism and a pinch of minimalism. It's all handsomely produced and sung but terribly precious and overly palatable. How far Bryars had come from the rich reality of the tramp singing "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" in his masterpiece from the '70s. Unfortunately, the remainder of the disc also fails to deliver much more than prettiness. The longest composition, "Four Elements," falls into the same gauzily impressionistic, rudderless rut of much of his '90s work, and the introduction of David James, the same countertenor used in "Incipit Vita Nova," seems tacked on just to fit in with the ostensible "medieval" feel of the album. The same applies to the use of a recorder on the final piece, "Sub Rosa." That work, however, does contain glimmers of the unique beauty and clarity of Bryars' earlier work as found on Hommages. But those instances are far too meager to be able to recommend this recording to anyone but listeners attempting to slowly crawl their way out of the new age morass.
© Brian Olewnick /TiVo
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 4 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 00:56:38
- Artistes principaux : David James Gavin Bryars String Trio The Hilliard Ensemble Gavin Bryars
- Compositeur : Gavin Bryars
- Label : ECM Records
- Genre : Classique
© 1994 ECM Records GmbH ℗ 1994 ECM Records GmbH
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