Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

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A caressing velvety choral reassurance underpins Jaan-Eile Tulve’s tender direction of Psalm 121…Nothing is forced. The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th May 2020
Catalogue No: 4819041
Label: ECM
Length: 69 minutes

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Kreek: The sun shall not smite thee

Work length3:05

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Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: Whilst Great Is Our Poverty

Work length5:17

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: Jacob's Dream / Orthodox Vespers: Proemial Psalm

Work length11:55

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come

Work length5:56

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Kreek: Psalm 104

Work length2:25

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Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: Awake, My Heart

Work length6:53

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Kreek: Orthodox Vespers

Work length2:21

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Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Praise the Name of the Lord

Track length2:21

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Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: Do the Birds Worry?

Work length5:06

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Kreek: Psalm 141

Work length2:27

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Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Cyrillus Kreek, Traditional: He, Who Lets God Prevail

Work length3:55

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Kreek: By the rivers of Babylon

Work length5:36

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Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Marco Ambrosini, Anna-Liisa Eller: The Last Dance

Work length2:39

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

Guillaume de Machaut, Cyrillus Kreek: O Jesus, Thy Pain / Dame, vostre doulz viaire (Arr. M. Ambrosini and Eller)

Work length12:06

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Anna-Liisa Eller (harp), Marco Ambrosini (harp), Angela Ambrosini (harp), Jaan-Eik Tulve (chorus conductor)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2018-04-27
Recording Venue: Transfiguration Church, Tallinn

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The Suspended Harp of Babel features revelatory performances of the choral music of Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962).

Kreek's pieces, incorporating graceful settings of psalms and folk hymns, are juxtaposed here with instrumental fantasias and interludes created for this recording by Marco Ambrosini. Under the direction of Jan-Eik Tulve, the Vox Clamantis choir whose previous ECM recordings have addressed works of Arvo Prt, Erkki-Sven Tr and Helena Tulve as well as Gregorian chant prove to be ideal interpreters of a music poised between old and new.

The Suspended Harp of Babel was recorded in Tallinn's Transfiguration Church in August 2018.

Personnel: Vox Clamantis; Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor); Marco and Angela Ambrosini (nyckelharpa); Anna-Liisa Eller (kannel)

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July 2020

A caressing velvety choral reassurance underpins Jaan-Eile Tulve’s tender direction of Psalm 121…Nothing is forced. The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression is abiding solace for these distracted times.

July 2020

Their clarity, their precision, their sheer musicianship make them easily one of the best vocal ensembles currently active anywhere in the world...Two of the most impressive works are Bless the Lord, my soul and By the rivers of Babylon, both of which are absolutely ideal vehicles for Vox Clamantis, whose precise placing of chords, assisted by impeccable tuning, means that every harmonic detail is as clear as a bell. Highly recommended.

23rd May 2020

His music is tonal, sensuous yet pure, direct but almost introspective...His setting of Psalm 104, Bless the Lord, my soul, opens with deep basses underpinning all, growing in radiance then retreating into haunting stillness...It’s music of another place and time, beautifully done.

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