Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance

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Psalms of Repentance is a deeply serious, spiritual work that leaves one with a sense of quiet awe. Apart from the score itself, the musicianship and recording are of very high quality. The blend... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2023 More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2023
Catalogue No: PTC5187028
Label: Pentatone
Length: 40 minutes

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Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance (Stikhi Pokayanniye)

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Martin Logar
Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

I. Adam sat weeping at the gates of paradise

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II. O wilderness, gather me

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III. That is why I live in poverty

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IV. My soul, my soul

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V. O Man, doomed and wretched

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VI. When they beheld the ship that suddenly came

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VII. Oh my soul, why are you not afraid

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VIII. If you wish to overcome

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IX. I have reflected on my life as a monk

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X. Christian people, gather together!

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XI. I entered this life of tears a naked infant

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XII. (wordless)

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Cappella Amsterdam and its artistic leader Daniel Reuss present their third Pentatone album with a recording of Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance. Schnittke composed the piece in 1988 to commemorate the Christianisation of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in 988, and based it on anonymous Russian texts from the 16th century about guilt and repentance. It is one of the most impressive large-scale works for a cappella choir written in the twentieth century, setting intensely emotional texts to equally expressive music, and approaching centuries-old Orthodox musical traditions through the lens of late twentieth-century music. This recording uses the original manuscript, which differs in multiple ways from the published score, resulting in an interpretation that aims to be closer to the composer’s intentions. Since its foundation in 1970, Cappella Amsterdam has shown an exceptional mastery of contemporary and early vocal music, with acclaimed excurses to Romantic repertoire as well. Daniel Reuss has been Artistic Leader of Cappella Amsterdam for over three decades now, and has worked with several renowned choirs and ensembles. Their PENTATONE debut album In Umbra Mortis (2021) won an Edison Klassiek Award,and was followed by David Lang: the writings in 2022.

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Nov/Dec 2023

Psalms of Repentance is a deeply serious, spiritual work that leaves one with a sense of quiet awe. Apart from the score itself, the musicianship and recording are of very high quality. The blend of the chorus is seamless, the mood ruminative. The recording feels smooth and spacious, but without echoes.

July 2023

The singers are as at home with Schnittke’s tortured canonic writing as they are with the flashes of tonal (or modal) calm and bursts of sunlight.

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