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LYNN NEARY, host: A choral group known for its early music repertoire and an avant-garde saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners, but when the Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Jan Garbarek for the first time in 1993, the result was "Officium," a recording of hauntingly beautiful music that sold more than a million copies.
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LYNN NEARY, host: A choral group known for its early music repertoire and an avant-garde saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners, but when the Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Jan Garbarek for the first time in 1993, the result was "Officium," a recording of hauntingly beautiful music that sold more than a million copies.
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LYNN NEARY, host: A choral group known for its early music repertoire and an avant-garde saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners, but when the Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Jan Garbarek for the first time in 1993, the result was "Officium," a recording of hauntingly beautiful music that sold more than a million copies.
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LYNN NEARY, host: A choral group known for its early music repertoire and an avant-garde saxophonist steeped in the art of improvisation may not be the most likely musical partners, but when the Hilliard Ensemble collaborated with Jan Garbarek for the first time in 1993, the result was "Officium," a recording of hauntingly beautiful music that sold more than a million copies.
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So begins the recording " Officium, " produced in 1993 by the four-voiced Hilliard Ensemble — a group revered for its renderings of Medieval and Renaissance music, as well as for forays into the contemporary classical repertoire — with Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
Medievalists Go Modern Stuart Isacoff 2010
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The Officium saga's many admirers will be enchanted, though jazz-improv buffs may be less so.
Jan Garbarek/Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum John Fordham 2010
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The music is Jan Garbarek, from the album Officium.
The Starship and the Museum: The Shape of Things Fresca 2010
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Soundbite of music NEARY: The Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek have joined forces again for their third album, "Officium Novum," featuring ancient, modern and sacred music with an emphasis on the musical tradition of Eastern Europe.
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Soundbite of music NEARY: The Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek have joined forces again for their third album, "Officium Novum," featuring ancient, modern and sacred music with an emphasis on the musical tradition of Eastern Europe.
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Not all ECM albums are classics, or are bought in the volumes enjoyed by Jarrett's The Köln Concert, which has sold about three million copies since its release in 1975, Part's Tabula Rasa, which introduced the world to "holy minimalism" in 1984, or Officium, the 1994 collaboration between Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble.
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