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I Am The True Vine: Arvo Part

Description

Contemporary troubador Paul Hillier has been one of the key players behind introducing Arvo Pärt's music to Western audiences, first through recordings with the Hilliard Ensemble and later through his magnificently innovative group Theatre of Voices. I Am the True Vine continues the collaboration by bringing together some truly vintage Pärt compositions from the '90s. Although it exists on disc in a more elaborate version for choir and strings, the 1990 Berlin Mass was originally written for just four solo voices and organ. Pärt later revised the score, returning to that original sonority, which is the version offered here. The consummate preparation of the Theatre of Voices, in which every line is lovingly unfurled, the whole building into a memorable aural sculpture, only heightens a listener's admiration for Pärt's ability to make the seemingly simple profound. We also hear the composer in a more overtly joyful mood than usual in the short first selection, while the title track--a setting of a text from the Gospel of John and one of three world premiere recordings here--is a marvelously organic example of word painting (representing Pärt's choral virtuosity even when it comes to setting English text). --Thomas May

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-04-13
Summary: "Arvo is the Real Thing"

This is the CD I would choose to introduce the music of Arvo Part to a new listener. Why? Because it's beautful music, beautifully sung. Because it's sublimely emotional music, sublimely felt. Because it's modern music that sounds strangely familiar; if you've appreciated Gregorian or Orthodox chant, you'll recognize both the indebtedness and the orginality of Part's music. Because most of the texts are in English or in familiar liturgical Latin; an English text does offer something by way of immediacy.

Arvo Part began his musical career writing successfully in the more or less standard musical vocabulary of modernism. But then, out of dissatisfaction, he turned to the music of the Middle Ages - chant and polyphonic tropes of chant - for new inspiration. There's a lot that's direct Medievalism in this performance. For comparison, listen to some of the CDs of Sequentia singing the Codex Calixtinus, or of Marcel Peres's Ensemble Organum, or of Paul Hillier's Hilliard Ensemble singing Perotinus. Part is plainchant driven to its irrational/rational extreme, taking dissonance and wild tessitura beyond the rules of Medieval composition. While we can instantly relish 11th C organa, I seriously doubt that the 11th C chanters would have comprehended Arvo Part.

Paul Hillier's Theater of Voices is the perfect ensemble to sing this music, all of them having a background in Early Music, all grasping the aesthetics and vocal production techniques to make such music beautiful. The sound recording on this CD is among the best I've ever heard of a choral performance.

Religion has inspired world's greatest music. A huge share of the music I listen to is "religious" even though I am not a religious person. It seems obvious that Arvo Part is a composer striving to express his most profound religious thoughts and feelings in his music. You may wonder why I respond to it so profoundly, if I'm indifferent to the religious thoughts. That's simple. You couldn't be fully human without responding to the transcendent impulse expressed in religious feelings... and in this music.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2006-08-20
Summary: "Heavenly lullaby"

This is the CD on my bedroom CD player that I listen to to "center" myself before going to sleep. It's actually a little intense for lullaby music, stimulating in a profoundly relaxing way.This is the first CD I would take to my desert island.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2003-04-03
Summary: "If you're looking for minimalism..."

I must have been under the false impression that ALL of Arvo Part's work since 1976 (around the time Fur Alina was written) was in the minimalist vein. Well, this recording is certainly not minimalist in any way, shape, or form.

If you are looking for this type of recording, I would recommend you try Part's instrumental works (apart from those written before '76).

This disc sounds more like neo-rennaisance madrigals and motets. If you are looking for a modern composer doing this type of work, look no further. However, if you are expecting another Fur Alina you will be greatly disappointed.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2001-01-06
Summary: "Impecable recording quality...a recording artists dream."

The best choral recording on the market period. So great in fact that I use this CD to test mid-range imagining on high end speakers. The tones are so pure....that you'll agree this is the CD you spent over 600. a speaker for, bar none.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2000-09-13
Summary: "Brilliant performance, good sound"

The CD "I am the true vine" with works by Arvo Part is my first more thorough encounter with this composer. The sound of his music - even in the more modern parts - is always very pleasing and somewhat "easy" to listen to. In how far, however, is Part's music conveying more than just the full, well set choral sound? In my opinion, Arvo Part delivers a general feeling about the text, but it takes some time to get acquainted to the unusual style where voices join and drop out of the setting during single words, and in some cases, the emphases in the rhythm of the music do not fit the pronounciation needed in the text (that's why there are only 4 stars).

The CD presents various works, from the "Berliner Messe" - a rather advanced arrangement - via some biblical themes in English to nearly folk-style slavic tunes. This variety makes this CD probably a good start for people like me who want to know more about Part's work. The recording is nearly flawless, and the ensembles directed by Paul Hillier do a very good job.