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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelFugl, Fuga Libera Label
UPC5400439007840
eBay Product ID (ePID)21049146355
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2021
GenreClassical Artists
ArtistVarious
Release TitleOrigins
Dimensions
Item Height0.36 in
Item Weight0.17 lb
Item Length5.55 in
Item Width5.00 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
NotesSjaella is the vocal ensemble of the moment to discover! Six talented and effervescent female singers who are not afraid of anything and demonstrate as much in a program entitled Origins, ranging from seventieth-century repertory to contemporary pieces. Out of the ether, into existence. The initial point. The beginning. The ever-recurring origin. Between minimalism and picturesque arias arise light, time, and all life. In Origins, the female vocal ensemble Sjaella focuses on natural cycles that have surrounded us since the dawn of time. In every era, people have experienced the changes in the seasons, the gentle rhythm of day and night, the individual flow of the body, and the transience of rebirth. All of these themes are presented as a unit, which forms a cycle of key concepts from the origin of life to a post-apocalyptic vacuum. The music contrasts and combines new arrangements of English songs of the seventeenth century, some of them from Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen, with contemporary pieces, including those in the American Minimalist style, such as David Lang's Evening, Morning, Day. By including mainly commissioned works, the album shows Sjaella's close collaboration with renowned international composers such as Paola Prestini, singer-songwriter Shara Nova and former King's Singers member Philip Lawson.