Genre: Contemporary Classical Jazz
GAB's Rating: ★★★★☆
Double Quartet, Sievert’s fourth album for PIROUET, is an offshoot of the bassist/composer’s musical vision for the 2014 edition of the yearly Tonspuren Festival at the Irsee Monastery in lower Bavaria.
While researching over 600 years of this former Benedictine Abbey’s history, Sieverts unearthed a Mass composed in 1614 specifically for the Abbey’s festival of St. Benedict.
Sieverts chose two elements from this festive Mass, a cantus firmus, an archaic leitmotif in the Pro Offertorio movement of the mass, and a hexachord, a symmetric six note scale composed of four whole tones with a half tone dividing the scale between the 3rd and 4th note. Sieverts incorporated these elements as leitmotifs in his own compositions. Henning emphasizes that “They permeate my Irsee music in every creative form possible.” The music at the monastery spanned three days; on two of these days a string chamber orchestra was integrated into the double quartet. A Saturday evening “lounge” concert featured the double quartet by itself. All three were inspired by the music composed and sung by the Irsee Monks. The day after the concerts the double quartet traveled to Munich and PIROUET’s Kyberg Studioto record this impressive work. Read more...
While researching over 600 years of this former Benedictine Abbey’s history, Sieverts unearthed a Mass composed in 1614 specifically for the Abbey’s festival of St. Benedict.
Sieverts chose two elements from this festive Mass, a cantus firmus, an archaic leitmotif in the Pro Offertorio movement of the mass, and a hexachord, a symmetric six note scale composed of four whole tones with a half tone dividing the scale between the 3rd and 4th note. Sieverts incorporated these elements as leitmotifs in his own compositions. Henning emphasizes that “They permeate my Irsee music in every creative form possible.” The music at the monastery spanned three days; on two of these days a string chamber orchestra was integrated into the double quartet. A Saturday evening “lounge” concert featured the double quartet by itself. All three were inspired by the music composed and sung by the Irsee Monks. The day after the concerts the double quartet traveled to Munich and PIROUET’s Kyberg Studioto record this impressive work. Read more...
Bass Twins
Cantus Five
Hexa Countdown
Drum Twins
Vipia Twins
Firm Chant
Cantus Seven
Sax Twins
Hexa Circle
Hexa Twelve
Hidden Hexa
Ebird
Fasoldo
Ursin
Bass Twins (Reprise)
Cantus Five
Hexa Countdown
Drum Twins
Vipia Twins
Firm Chant
Cantus Seven
Sax Twins
Hexa Circle
Hexa Twelve
Hidden Hexa
Ebird
Fasoldo
Ursin
Bass Twins (Reprise)
Henning Sieverts bass, cello
Loren Stillman alto & soprano saxophone
Silvain Rifflet tenor saxophone, clarinet
Florian Weber piano
Pascal Schumacher vibraphone
Françoise Thuillier tuba
Jochen Rueckert drums
John Hollenbeck drums
Loren Stillman alto & soprano saxophone
Silvain Rifflet tenor saxophone, clarinet
Florian Weber piano
Pascal Schumacher vibraphone
Françoise Thuillier tuba
Jochen Rueckert drums
John Hollenbeck drums
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