CD ECM Records Terje Rypdal: Lux Aeterna

Terje Rypdal - Guitar
Palle Mikkelborg - Trumpet
Iver Kleive - Organ
Åshild Stubo Gundersen - Soprano
Bergen Chamber Ensemble , dirijor Kiell Seim

"Highly attractive between-the-idioms album from the veteran ECM improviser/composer, setting his unique electric guitar, Palle Mikkelborg’s trumpet, and church organ played by Iver Kleive against the sonorities of the Bergen Chamber Ensemble. Commissioned by the Molde Festival, “Lux Aeterna” conveys some of the lyricism and freshness of early classics including “Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away” as well as the compositional logic of later works including “Q.E.D”. and particularly the acclaimed “Double Concerto” of which classical magazine International Record Review, comparing Rypdal’s textures with those of Pärt, Tüür and Kancheli, wrote “Rypdal’s voice is an individual one, and he has much to say; he is in addition a superb orchestrator ...”"

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Lux Aeterna is an orchestral work in five movements, with featured parts of trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg and Rypdal himself. It is filled with that curious melancholy which distinguishes contemporary Nordic music on both sides of the jazz-classical divide: trailing wisps of melody and harmonies moving with glacial slowness. But then, just as you are beginning to lose patience with it, in comes Mikkelborg’s trumpet, with a tone half-note and half-breath, and the effect is utterly magical. And that is as close as I can get to answering the question of whether this is jazz or not. Just be patient and listen.
Dave Gelly, The Observer