Vox Clamantis
The Deer’s Cry
- Type CD
- Label ECM New Series
- UPC 0028948124497
- Catalog number ECM 4812449
- Release date 09 September 2016
About the album
The second ECM New Series album to fully showcase Estonian vocal group Vox Clamantis is devoted to compositions by their great countryman, Arvo Pärt – whose music has been the most performed globally of any living composer over the past five years from his 75th birthday leading up to his 80th last September. This album – titled The Deer’s Cry after its first track, an incantatory work for a cappella mixed choir – is also the latest in a long, illustrious line of ECM New Series releases to feature Pärt’s compositions, the very music that inspired Manfred Eicher to establish the New Series imprint in 1984. Along with such classic works as Da Pacem Domine the new album includes first-time recordings of the a cappella pieces Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima and Habitare Fratres. There is also an a cappella version of Alleluia-Tropus, which Vox Clamantis previously recorded alongside instruments for the Grammy Award-winning ECM New Series album Adam’s Lament. Rarely recorded material makes up nearly half of this new release, which includes three pieces with subtle instrumental accompaniment: Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Sei gelobt, du Baum and Veni Creator.
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11The Deer’s Cry
04:10 -
12Von Angesicht zu Angesicht
03:57 -
13Alleluia-Tropus
03:05 -
14Virgencita
05:54 -
15Veni Creator
02:32 -
16Drei Hirtenkinder aus Fátima
01:32 -
17And One of the Pharisees
08:10 -
18Da pacem Domine
05:21 -
19Most Holy Mother of God
04:56 -
110Sei gelobt, du Baum
04:23 -
111Habitare fratres in unum
01:56 -
112Summa
06:02 -
113Gebet nach dem Kanon
10:24