Ensemble Bonne Corde - Lamentationes Hebdomadae Sanctae - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Produced by Jean-Baptiste Mersiol and Jacques Viret, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Strasbourg and a Gregorian chant specialist, this 3-album set highlights historic recordings dating from 1930, restored to a sound quality that is almost contemporary and gathered together for the first time in their entirety, and with their original running order. Solesmes Abbey was then the world's great specialist in Gregorian palaeography, and it's chants aroused an admiration that was unanimous and went beyond musicological considerations. A genuine cornerstone of Western music, the universal splendor of this monodic singing with a thousand-year history is invaluable evidence that grace is obtained through beauty.

He was InchtremendouslyInch impressed, Arvo Pärt recalls of the moment he stood in front of Anish Kapoor's InchMarsyasInch for the first time at London's Tate Modern. InchSuddenly I found myself in a position from where I saw my life in a different light. At that moment, I had the strong feeling that I wasn't ready to die yet, Inch said then-67-year-old Arvo Pärt. This was the creative impulse for InchLamentateInch. Arvo Pärt, who celebrates his 85th birthday on September 11, 2020, seems to have often been inspired to compose by external circumstances. This is demonstrated in the selection of works for or with piano, which Onute Gražinyte chose for her first recording. InchFür AlinaInch is particularly important to the Lithuanian pianist. In 1976, Pärt dedicated it to a young woman who had decided to leave the Soviet Union for England. InchI know Alina's mother personally and can sympathize with her indescribable painInch, says Onute Gražinyte. The pianist was baffled by Pärt's simple musical notation. InchFirst you ask yourself What is this?Inch Her playing reveals She understands. InchArvo Pärt has reached the core. It's no coincidence that he dedicated many piano pieces to children and that he intended the 'Vater Unser' (Our Father) to be sung by a boy soprano. It's the ideal, the purity that children are born with and the composer has found it again.Inch

Album Tracks 1. Lamentatio I for Bass, Two Oboes, Strings and Basso Continuo 2. Lamentatio II for Alto, Two Oboes in Ripieno, Strings and Basso Continuo 3. Lamentatio III (Gregorian Chant) 4. Lamentatio I for Tenor, Two Oboes, Strings and Basso Continuo 5. Lamentatio II for Bass, Two Oboes, Strings and Basso Continuo 6. Lamentatio III (Gregorian Chant) 7. Lamentatio I for Tenor, Two Flutes, Two Cellos and Basso Continuo 8. Lamentatio II for Alto, Violin, Chalumeau, Bassoon and Basso Continuo 9. Lamentatio III (Gregorian Chant)