Origins

$20.99
Label
Fuga Libera
Release Date
October 8, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Sjaella
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 08, 2021
    • UPC
      5400439007840
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FUG784
    • LABEL
      Fuga Libera
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Evening morning day

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    2. Ayres and Dialogues, Book 3: Have you e'er seen the morning sun? (arr. P. Lawson for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Henry Lawes

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    3. Act IV: Thus the ever grateful Spring

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    4. Act IV: Here's the Summer, sprightly, gay

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    5. Act IV: See my many coloured fields

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    6. Act IV: Next Winter comes slowly, pale

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    7. Crystallized

      Composer: Meredi

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    8. Hypophysis

      Composer: Susanne Blache, Marie Fenske, Franziska Eberhardt, Marie Charlotte Seidel, Felicitas Erben, Helene Erben

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    9. Have you seen the bright lily grow? (arr. S. Blache for vocal ensemble)

      Composer: Robert Johnson

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    10. Act II: See, even Night herself is here

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    11. Act II: I am come to lock all fast

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    12. Act II: One charming night

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    13. Act II: Hush, no more, be silent all

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    14. Stars

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    15. No. 1. Apocalypse?

      Composer: Paola Prestini

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    16. No. 2. Dead Soul

      Composer: Paola Prestini

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    17. No. 3. Ascending Stairways

      Composer: Paola Prestini

      Ensemble: Sjaella

    18. Vacuum

      Composer: Viola Blache, Marie Fenske, Franziska Eberhardt, Marie Charlotte Seidel, Felicitas Erben, Helene Erben

      Ensemble: Sjaella


Sjaella 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.