Gurdjieff Kwartet

This release continues this successful series. This ensemble has revived the music in one of the greatest collections of polyphonic music in Western Europe.

This two-CD selection from the fifth rediscovered Leiden Choirbook consists of around eighteen items - ranging in time from around 1480 to 1570 - including motets, settings of more substantial works such as Salve regina and Magnificat, and a splendid Mass. Composers include relatively familiar figures such as Isaac, Crecquillon, Willaert, Richafort and Clemens non Papa, and some lesser-known such as the very fine choirmaster of the Pieterskerk in Leiden, Johannes Flamingus, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Benedictus Appenzeller, and Joachimus de Monte who already made a couple of delightful contributions to Volume I in the series.

Levon Eskenian and the musicians of The Gurdjieff Ensemble feature the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935), composer, ethnomusicologist, arranger, singer and priest, and popularly held to be the founder of contemporary music in Armenia.

Keith Jarrett - G.I. Gurdjieff - Sacred Hymns (1980) {ECM 1174}
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© 1980 ECM Records | ECM 1174 / 829 122-2
Classical / Early 20th Century / Religious / Piano

Here we have simplicity itself: a series of piano transcriptions of some solemn, now-dark, now-affirmative religious hymns by one G.I. Gurdjieff, with none of the usual flourishes and heady flights usually associated with Keith Jarrett's solo records. Jarrett assumes the proper devotional position, playing with a steady tread but always with attention to dynamic extremes, producing a gorgeously rich piano tone with plenty of bass. The whole record has a serene dignity, even at its loudest levels, that gets to you, and that should be enough for the devout Jarrett following.

Recueil de notes se rapportant à diverses réunions tenues par Gurdjieff et reconstituées par ses élèves. Il témoigne de l'enseignement du maître spirituel. Il s'accompagne du témoignage d'un élève relatant sa rencontre avec ce dernier en 1915, peu avant la Révolution russe, de deux conférences et d'aphorismes. ..