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Composer:
Orlande de Lassus

Artist(s):
Jan Lundgren
Lars Danielsson

Background: Jan Lundgren explored the roots of Scandinavia's rich folk heritage, the standards of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's music, before taking lessons in chamber-jazz. Magnum Mysterium, possibly his most ambitious project to date, is the 41 year-old's take on classical music.

European Renaissance sacred music by Orlando di Lassus and Claudio Monteverdi through to Cristobal de Morales and William Byrd supply the template for an impressive collaboration with Gustaf Sjökvist and his chamber choir.

On Magnum Mysterium, the solemn original vocal passages delivered by Sjökvist's fantastic singers, form the backdrop for Lundgren to open up new pathways within the stately madrigals. A few blue notes here, a world music embellishment or different choice of harmony there, suffice. Lundgren, it turns out, is a master of economy - as a player and as the arranger of most of the pieces on the CD.

This ease, eloquence and variability of this recording, certainly distinguishes it from Officium, the no less impressive, yet somewhat monolithic work by Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, that will inevitably draw comparisons.

CATALOGUE NR: ACT94572
RECORD LABEL: ACT
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 26-Nov-2007

COMPOSER: Orlande de Lassus  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Magnum Mysterium
TRACKS: Vinea Mea (Anon). Prophetiae Sibyllarum (Lassus). Se Nel Partir Da Voi (Monteverdi). Crux Fidelis (John IV King of Portugal). Kyrie from Missa De Carneval (Gaffurio). O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria). Da Pacem Domine from Graduale Romanum (Anon). Pastores Dicite Quidnam Vidistis? (Morales). Maria Magdalene Et Altera Maria (Gabrieli). Magnum Mysterium (Byrd). Angelus Autem Domini Descendit (Anerio).
ARTISTS: Jan Lundgren   Lars Danielsson   Gustaf Sjokvist Chamber Choir  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded May-2007 at Storkyrkan Stockholm - the Cathedral of Stockholm

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