Jonathan Harvey – Angels (2008)

Posted By : d'Avignon | Date : 14 Feb 2010 02:15:55 | Comments : 13 |

Jonathan Harvey – Angels (2008)

Label: Soupir | cat. no 215

Jonathan Harvey is well on his way to become one of my favourite living composers. Here some marvellously original choral singing

Tracks:

01. The Angels [0:04:07.42]
02. Missa Brevis, Kyrie [0:03:16.02]
03. Missa Brevis, Gloria [0:03:04.07]
04. Missa Brevis, Sanctus [0:02:55.16]
05. Missa Brevis, Agnus Dei [0:02:39.04]
06. Marahi [0:10:11.25]
07. How Could the Soul Take Flight [0:10:44.22]
08. Dum Transisset Sabbatum [0:05:25.59]
09. Sweet/Winterhart [0:07:21.29]

Performers:

Les Jeunes Solistes – Rachid Safir

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Posted By: denegado Date: 14 Feb 2010 02:23:33

Excellent post! Thank you very much, d'Avignon!!

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 14 Feb 2010 02:44:26

He's devilishly good! I don't understand why I'd never heard of Harvey before he was introduced on a larger scale here couple of months ago. The title track, "Angels" is a miracle...and I won't forget the rest

Posted By: Molière Date: 14 Feb 2010 08:39:23

Merci! Very much looking forward to listening to this!

Posted By: ooliver Date: 14 Feb 2010 10:26:16

Thanks to Antidatum we have all discovered this wonderful composer: thanks d'Avignon for adding more stones to his marvelous musical constructions!

Posted By: basa005 Date: 14 Feb 2010 10:50:01

commovente
grazie!

Posted By: fanny.xenakis Date: 14 Feb 2010 11:51:39

It so strange: The only Harvey album I have heard is dad's "From Silence" from 1992. I have never ever encountered another one, and so, out of the blue, suddenly there's plenty of them here on avax. Thank you!

Posted By: Antidatum Date: 14 Feb 2010 13:42:09

Thank you d'Avignon for bringing more Harvey's music to our board. I heard just one choral piece to date and it was an absolutely moving experience. I'm happy you like it!

You wrote: "I don't understand why I'd never heard of Harvey before..." which means that Harvey's works are seldom programmed at the festival/concert agendas. Too bad. I was lucky to hear him several times on stage and hope that interest to his music will be increasing more and more while the composer is still with us the living, he's at his 70's now.

Edited: For those who overlooked it, there's another Harvey's piece "Mortuos plango, vivos voco" at Avax, RS links are still active: http://avaxhome.ws/music/avant_garde/Dufourt_Ferneyhough_Harvey_Holler.html

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 14 Feb 2010 16:16:10

There's more where this came from. I'll make up a list; at first sight it looks like I can get five or six albums with compositions not posted yet. A lot of overlap of course, as is usual with classical music, but that doesn't matter.

Interesting is Harvey's approach of modernism through ancient cultures. Many of his compositions have Sanskrit names. Composer Ton de Leeuw ('26-'96), a Dutchman, had the same approach.

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@antidatum:
Funny, the compilation album in your link mentions Harvey was born in '68...alas, he's a little bit older than that

Posted By: trench Date: 14 Feb 2010 21:30:59

From all the comments ir sounds like I've been missing out on something here...so I'll give it a try.

Posted By: Antidatum Date: 14 Feb 2010 23:19:24

@d'Avignon: That means we're going to have the whole Harvey Festival here! Thank you so much!

Posted By: paulree Date: 17 Feb 2010 10:04:08

Thanks so much, great music

Posted By: Antidatum Date: 28 Feb 2010 14:34:53

Track #7 should be named: "How Could the Soul NOT Take Flight", an interesting mistake, isn't it? :-)

Posted By: EDTOPIA Date: 29 Sep 2011 23:03:22

Thank you very much!
(from Mexico)

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