Description
Arvo Pärt • John Tavener • Henryk Górecki • Alan Ridout Summa • Funeral Ikos • The Lamb (EMI Audio CD)
UPC: 72435737542
Overview
The Vasari Singers under Jeremy Backhouse deliver an extraordinary collection of late-20th-century sacred choral works on EMI’s Red Line series. From the austere purity of Pärt’s Summa and The Beatitudes, through Tavener’s haunting The Lamb and Funeral Ikos, to Górecki’s contemplative Totus Tuus, this 74‑minute program showcases the ensemble’s luminous tone and spiritual depth.
Product Features
- Format: CD, Album (DDD Digital Recording, Stereo)
- Label & Catalogue: EMI Classics – 7243 5 73754 2 (Red Line #5)
- Country of Release: UK & Europe
- Release Year: 2000
- Genre: Classical / Choral Sacred Music
- Total Playing Time: 73:48
- Choir: Vasari Singers
- Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse
- Engineer: Mike Clements
Track Listing
- 1. Summa (Arvo Pärt, 1977) – 4:57
- 2. The Lamb (John Tavener, 1982) – 3:14
- 3. The Beatitudes (Arvo Pärt, 1990/rev. 1991) – 6:58
- 4. Funeral Ikos (John Tavener, 1981) – 7:42
- 5. Litany (Alan Ridout, 1985) – 13:50
Two Hymns to the Mother of God (John Tavener, 1985)
- 6. A Hymn to the Mother of God – 2:20
- 7. Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God – 3:31
Seven Magnificat Antiphons (Arvo Pärt, 1988/rev. 1991)
- 8. O Weisheit – 1:22
- 9. O Adonai – 1:46
- 10. O Sproß aus Isais Wurzel – 0:51
- 11. O Schlüssel Davids – 1:49
- 12. O Morgenstern – 1:54
- 13. O König aller Völker – 1:49
- 14. O Immanuel – 3:12
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale) (John Tavener, 1986)
- 15. Magnificat – 7:19
- 16. Nunc dimittis – 2:31
- Totus Tuus, Op. 60 (Henryk Górecki, 1987) – 8:58
Publishers and Artists
- Composers: Arvo Pärt, John Tavener, Alan Ridout, Henryk Górecki
- Choir: Vasari Singers
- Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse
- Engineer: Mike Clements
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