Dialogues

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Very often, "crossover" means musicians talking (or singing, or playing) past each other. This is something rather different, and the tone is set by the appearance of the solo cello playing the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2010
Catalogue No: SU40092
Label: Supraphon
Length: 63 minutes

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anon.: Universi (Graduale)

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

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Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

Jaroslav Šťastný: Cello Suite

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)

I. Goya

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II. Geometric Thoughts

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Pavel Szymański: Miserere

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Jirí Bárta (soloist), Kateřina Englichová (soloist), David Řehoř (soloist)
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

anon.: Divinae pacis (Litaniae)

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)

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Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

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Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

Pärt: Fratres for Male Voices and 2 Cellos

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Jirí Bárta (soloist), Jitka Vlašánková (soloist)
Schola Gregoriana Pragensis

Smolka: In The Gorge for Cello Solo

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Jirí Bárta (soloist)

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The renowned ensemble Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and the leading Czech cellist Jirí Bárta have been pursuing dialogues on concert stages for a number of years. They share abundant experience of music both early and contemporary, improvisation and seeking. The fruit of their encounters is a recording that is a multilayered dialogue between the sonorous sound of the cello and the male voice, a dialogue between the chorale and medieval polyphony and the creation of the past few decades, music written and improvised.

The idea of “mirroring the past in the present” is the overarching theme connecting pieces by contemporary composers. Peter Graham’s Suite for Cello Solo reveals his having been inspired by Bach solo suites. The contemporary musical phraseology and the Gregorian tradition are originally interconnected in the meditative composition Miserere by the Polish creator Pawel Szymanski, while the structure of Arvo Pärt’s famous piece Fratres is a sort of reminiscence of medieval polyphony. The music, in places verging on silence, affords the listener scope for inner soothing and perception of fine nuances that often remain concealed to us in the turbulent world around.

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December 2010

Very often, "crossover" means musicians talking (or singing, or playing) past each other. This is something rather different, and the tone is set by the appearance of the solo cello playing the chant with the excellent singers of Schola Cantorum Pragensis. It's intriguing and beautiful...Recording quality is excellent, and no vocal or instrumental subtlety is lost. Highly recommended.

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