Terje Rypdal

Two large compositions make up a characteristically adventurous programme from Terje Rypdal. His new album’s title piece, the 45 minute Melodic Warrior, was commissioned by the Hilliard Ensemble and recorded at the Brucknerhaus Linz in 2003 with the distinguished British vocal group and the Bruckner Orchestra, under Dennis Russell Davies. The Hilliards sing texts drawn from Native American poetry, from Chippewa, Navajo, Pima, and Papago sources, and Rypdal’s sustained electric guitar lines soar melodically and dramatically above the strings’ broad planes of sound.

PERSONNEL:

(1-13) TERJE RYPDAL, guitar
(1-9) THE HILLARD ENSEMBLE:
DAVID JAMES, countertenor
ROGERS COVEY, Crump tenor
STEVEN HARROLD,  tenor sax
GORDON JONES, baritone
BRUCKNER  ORCHESTER LINZ: DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES, conductor

(10-13) WROCLAW PHILLARMONIC ORCHESTRA
SEBASTIAN PERLOSWSKI, conductor

TRACKS:

Melodic Warrior op.79
01. Awakening
02. Easy Now
03. Song Of Thunders
04. The Secret File
05. My Music Reaches To The Sky
06. But Then Again
07. A Prayer
08. Magician Song
09. The Morning Star
And The Sky Was Coloured With Waterfalls And Angels op.97
10. I
11. II
12. III
13. IV