''Mnemosyne'' is an album by

jazz saxophonist Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones ( alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved ove ...

Jan Garbarek Jan Garbarek () (born 4 March 1947) is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist, who is also active in classical music and world music. Garbarek was born in Mysen, Østfold, southeastern Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war, Czesław ...

released in 1999 by

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. The album is a sequel to '' Officium'' (1994), one of the most significant recordings in Garbarek’s career. Like the first album, it is a collaboration with the vocal ensemble the

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Track listing

;CD 1 # "Quechua Song" – 7:12 # "O Lord in Thee Is All My Trust" – 5:09 # "Estonian Lullaby" – 1:58 # "Remember Me My Dear" – 6:30 # "Gloria" – 6:03 # "Fayrfax Africanus" – 4:05 # "Agnus Dei" – 8:38 # "Novus Novus" – 2:18 # "Se Je Fays Dueil" – 5:12 # "O Ignis Spiritus" – 10:53 ;CD 2 # "Alleluia Nativitatis" – 5:06 # "Delphic Paean" – 4:46 # "Strophe and Counter-Strophe" – 5:02 # "Mascarados" – 5:02 # "Loiterando" – 5:33 # "Estonian Lullaby" – 2:01 # "Russian Psalm" – 3:45 # "Eagle Dance" – 4:48 # "When Jesus Wept" – 3:22 # "Hymn to the Sun" – 7:28

Personnel

– soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone *

– vocal ensemble **

Rogers Covey-Crump Rogers Henry Lewis Covey-Crump (born 1944) is an English tenor noted for his performances in both early music and contemporary classical music. He has sometimes been identified as an ''haute-contre'' tenor. He has performed for over 50 years i ...

– tenor vocals ** John Potter – tenor vocals ** Gordon Jones – baritone vocals ** David James – countertenor vocals * Friedrich Hölderlin – lyrics

References

External links

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