JulienDavenne
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Voices of Light - Richard Einhorn
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Track List:
01 Exclamavit
02 Victory At Orleans (Letter from Joan of Arc)
03 Interrogation
04 Jailers
05 Pater Noster
06 Torture
07 Illness (Letter from Joan of Arc)
08 Sacrament
09 Abjuration
10 Relapse
11 Karitas
12 Anima
13 The Final Walk
14 The Burning
15 The Fire Of The Dove
16 Epilogue (Letter from Joan of Arc)
1994
Samples:
Relapse
Anima
The Fire
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In the 1980s, Richard Einhorn was developing a large piece on a religious subject when a friend suggested Joan of Arc as the subject. While sifting through the archives of the Museum of Modern Art, he found a still from the movie The Passion of Joan of Arc. After watching the film, he set to work on the entire piece.
In preparation, Einhorn visited her hometown of Domrémy-la-Pucelle in France. According to a 2017 interview with the Criterion channel, Richard Einhorn visited the church where she prayed which is still standing, located near her home. He took along a recorder and recorded the sound of the church bells. These bells are relevant to her story as Joan said the bells triggered the voices from the angels. The bells that can be heard in the original recording are these very bells from her church the way they would have sounded to her.
The piece uses a multi-layered approach intended to resemble the polyphonic music of Joan's own time. The first layer is the slowed down Gregorian chant. A one minute chant now becomes fifteen minutes. There are multiple texts then sung over the slowed down chant. This creates the polyphony.
The piece premiered in February 1994 as live accompaniment to the Dreyer film at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts, performed by the Arcadia Players and the Da Camera Singers under the direction of Margaret Irwin-Brandon. |
from Wikipedia
This I think is one of the most beautiful compositions that have ever been made for a movie. It was composed as the soundtrack for Dreyer's masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc. It is often played live during the film screenings (see here, the concert at the University of Notre Dame). I hope it will be included in your catalog! _________________ « Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can loose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies »
Lisa Gerrard
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