Officium (ECM, 1993) paired renowned Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek with The Hilliard ensemble—a vocal group with a formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music—playing a ...

A choral group known for its early-music repertoire and a saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners. But the Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek have ...

When Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's first collaboration, Officium, started appearing in various charts, most of them registering remarkable sales but the most worrying being the dinner-party ...

Within the reverberant acoustic of an ancient chapel, a cappella male quartet gives pure voice to a piece of Medieval or Renaissance liturgical music, by de Morales, say, or Tallis or Hildegard of ...

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At first blush, there is really no reason the eutection of early a capella music and modern saxophone should work. It is antithetical, it makes no sense. However, wizards like Manfred Eicher, ...

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Norwegian jazz musician and composer Jan Garbarek broke free from the accepted definitions of jazz around 10 years ago, when he made the album Officium. It was his first encounter with the vocal power ...