Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eick Tulve - Arvo Part: The Deer's Cry

The second ECM New Series album to fully showcase Estonian vocal group Vox Clamantis is devoted to compositions by their great countryman, Arvo P�rt - whose music has been the most performed globally of any living composer over the past five years from his 75th birthday leading up to his 80th last September.

This album - titled The Deer's Cry after its opening track, an incantatory work for a cappella mixed choir - is also the latest in a long, illustrious line of ECM New Series releases to feature P�rt's compositions, the very music that inspired Manfred Eicher to establish the New Series imprint in 1984. Along with such classic works as Da Pacem Domine the new album includes first-time recordings of the a cappella pieces Drei Hirtenkinder aus F�tima and Habitare Fratres. There is also an a cappella version of Alleluia-Tropus, which Vox Clamantis previously recorded alongside instruments for the Grammy Award-winning ECM New Series album 'Adam's Lament'.

Rarely recorded material makes up nearly half of this release, which includes three pieces with subtle instrumental accompaniment: Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Sei gelobt, du Baum, and Veni Creator.

Personnel: Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor), Mari Poll (violin), Johanna Vaherm�gi (viola), Heikko Remmel, Taavo Remmel (double basses), Robert Staak (lute), Toomas Vavilov (clarinet), Susanne Doll (organ)