Bernat Vivancos: Blanc (Choral Works)

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Release Date: 23rd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: NEUMCHCD001
Label: NEU Records
Length: 86 minutes

Vivancos: Obriu-me els llavis, Senyor

Work length14:51

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Messe aux sons des cloches. Kyrie

Work length2:44

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Messe aux sons des cloches. Gloria

Work length5:46

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Messe aux sons des cloches. Sanctus

Work length2:21

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Messe aux sons des cloches. Agnus

Work length2:59

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: El cant dels ocells

Work length6:25

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Bubbles

Work length3:42

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: A Child is Born

Work length8:10

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Latvian Radio Choir, Bernat Vivancos
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Nigra sum

Work length8:39

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Salve d'ecos

Work length9:04

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Le cri des bergers

Work length5:35

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

Vivancos: Nigra es, pulchra sum

Work length15:45

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Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava

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The first recording from the Spanish label Neu Records features choral works by the composer Bernat Vivancos (born in Barcelona in 1973), sung by the world renowned Latvian Radio Choir under the direction of Sigvards Klava. To quote Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen’s booklet notes, “Vivancos’ music is like a city of angels: blissful sounds populated by saintly spirits hiding between the notes as birds in a tree”.

An exquisite double album, Blanc comprises nine of Vivancos’ most evocative choral pieces, reflecting an aesthetic approach that the composer began to develop during stays in Paris and Oslo. It’s music of rich sonority, texture and colour, where research into spectral inspired harmonies, Western traditional modal music, and a constant interest to create a new and seductive dimension all converge, and where being transported by the sound itself is one of the main attractions.

Contemplation and transcendence, always present in his music, are captured in works of great beauty such as Nigra Sum, in which female voices elucidate the blackness of the Black Madonna venerated in the Shrine of Montserrat - Vivancos is music director of Montserrat Boys Choir.

The Latvian Radio Choir, founded in 1940, has been led by Sigvards Klava and Kaspars Putnins since 1992. Its repertoire embraces the Renaissance era and contemporary music,

and it has made more than 40 discs for labels like Ondine, Naïve, BIS and Gavin Bryars Records. In 2012, ECM New Series released the choir’s recording of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament (with Sinfonietta Riga) to great acclaim.

Bernat Vivancos: Blanc (Choral Works)

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