ECM New Series 1700
Playing time: 105'02
Recorded April 1998,
Propstei St Gerold
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Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
| CD 1 | ||
| 1. | Quechua Song Peruvian folksong fragment | [7:12] |
| 2. | O Lord in Thee is all My Trust Thomas Tallis | [5:09] |
| 3. | Estonian Lullaby Veljo Tormis | [1:58] |
| 4. | Remember Me My Dear 16th century Scotland | [6:30] |
| 5. | Gloria Guillaume Dufay | [6:03] |
| 6. | Fayrfax Africanus St Albans / Great Dunmow | [4:05] |
| 7. | Agnus Dei Antoine Brumel | [8:38] |
| 8. | Novus novus 13th century France | [2:18] |
| 9. | Se je fayz dueil Guillaume le Rouge | [5:12] |
| 10. | O ignis spiritus Hildegard von Bingen | [10:53] |
| CD 2 | ||
| 1. | Alleluia nativitatis 13th century England | [5:06] |
| 2. | Delphic Paean Athenaeus (127 BC) | [4:46] |
| 3. | Strophe and Counter-Strophe Jan Garbarek | [5:02] |
| 4. | Mascarades Basque folksong fragments | [5:02] |
| 5. | Loiterando Jan Garbarek | [5:33] |
| 6. | Estonian Lullaby Veljo Tormis | [2:01] |
| 7. | Russian Psalm 16th century Russia | [3:45] |
| 8. | Eagle Dance Iroquois & Padleirmiut fragments | [4:48] |
| 9. | When Jesus Wept William Billings | [3:22] |
| 10. | Hymn to the Sun Mesomedes (2nd century Greece) | [7:28] |
David James, countertenor
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor
John Potter, tenor
Gordon Jones, baritone
Jan Garbarek, soprano and tenor saxophones
Five years after the recording of "Officium", the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek returned to the monastery of St Gerold to renew, in the words of singer John Potter, their "encounter with the unknown." The resultant, very beautiful, double-album, "Mnemosyne", is wider in scope than its predecessor, and the improvised component of the music is expanded. Repertoire now spans 22 centuries, from the "Delphic Paean" of Athenaeus to the "Estonian Lullaby" of Veljo Tormis, via folk song fragments from North and South America and Spain, freely developed, as well as pieces by Tallis, Dufay, Brumel, Hildegard von Bingen, Jan Garbarek, a Russian psalm, a Scottish ballad of the 16th century, and much more. "We did it for each other in the absence of an audience, and these are complete one-off performances which will never sound the same again."