Vox Clamantis
The Estonian choir Vox Clamantis has focused on Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony. The group has also emerged as a major force championing minimalist and other contemporary works by Baltic and Scandinavian composers.
The group, whose name comes from the biblical description of the Prophet Isaiah ("a voice crying in the desert"), was founded in 1996 and organized by the Estonian Gregorian Society. Its original purpose was to sing Gregorian chant. Even as it expanded beyond that repertory, its membership, including composers, instrumentalists, and conductors, was united by a common interest in the chant repertory. Since its inception, Vox Clamantis has been led by conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve, who had conducted Le Choeur Grégorian de Paris (with which Vox Clamantis has collaborated) and several similar choirs and who had taught chant singing. Vox Clamantis first expanded its repertory into medieval polyphony and then into contemporary music from Estonia and elsewhere in northern Europe. In 1999, the group made its recording debut on the K 617 label, joining several other choirs on the album Officium Sancti Willibrordi.
Composers who have written new music for the group include Arvo Pärt, Erkki-Sven Tüür, and Tunisian composer and Sufi vocalist Dhafer Youssef. Vox Clamantis' set of performance collaborators is similarly impressive, including soprano Arianna Savall, percussionist Brian Melvin, and organists from various countries. The group has toured most European countries, North America, Lebanon, Australia, and East Asia. Since 2011, they have appeared annually at the French festival La Folle Journée. In 2011, Vox Clamantis received the Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Fine Arts, and in 2017, they were given the National Culture Award of the Republic of Estonia. Vox Clamantis has recorded for ECM, Mirare, and Aurora. The group's 2014 ECM recording of Pärt's The Deer's Cry won a Grammy Award in the U.S., and it has also earned several high-profile European recording awards, including the Diapason d'Or in France. In 2018, the group released Akrostikon, a collection of contemporary Scandinavian works on the Aurora label. Vox Clamantis moved to the ECM label for the album Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel in 2020. The year 2023 saw Tulve and Vox Clamantis appear on a pair of albums: the chant release Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne on the Mirare label and Music by Henrik Ødegaard on ECM.
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Discografia
15 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Music by Henrik Ødegaard
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 2 giu 2023
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Arvo Pärt : The Deer's Cry
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 9 set 2016
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Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne
Musica corale - Pubblicato da Mirare il 3 mar 2023
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Filia Sion
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM Records il 25 mag 2012
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Arvo Pärt : Adam's Lament
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Sinfonietta Riga, Tõnu Kaljuste
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 12 ott 2012
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Sacrum convivium (Duruflé, Machaut, Poulenc, Messiaen)
Cori sacri - Pubblicato da Mirare il 21 set 2018
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Franz Liszt: Via crucis
Vox Clamantis and Jean Claude Pennetier
Classica - Pubblicato da Mirare il 11 mar 2013
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Arvo Pärt: Adam's Lament
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Sinfonietta Riga, Tõnu Kaljuste
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 12 ott 2012
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Ieremias : Chant grégorien / Chant hispanique (IEREMIA - CHANTS GREGORIENS, CHANTS HISPANIQUES)
Esemble Vox Clamantis, Jaan Eik Tulve, Jean-Pascal Ollivry, Kadri Hunt, Mikk Uleoja
World music - Pubblicato da Arion il 15 apr 2003
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Stella Matutina (Vox Clamantis)
Classica - Pubblicato da Mirare il 25 ago 2008
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Cyrillus Kreek - The Suspended Harp of Babel
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 8 mag 2020
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ANNUM PER ANNUM
Vox Clamantis, Jaan Eik Tulve, Aare-Paul Lattik
Classica - Pubblicato da Arion il 1 gen 2002
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Cyrillus Kreek - The Suspended Harp of Babel
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 8 mag 2020
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Music by Henrik Ødegaard
Classica - Pubblicato da ECM New Series il 2 giu 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo