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Hymns - Spheres

Keith Jarrett

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: 3716391

Release Date:  14 January 2013

Label:  ECM

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  602537163915

Genres:  Jazz  Classical  

  • Description

    The complete Hymns - Spheres, the recording from 1976 on which Keith Jarrett plays the pipe organ, has always been available in its original 2-LP version but only four selected movements of Spheres were released, in 1985, on a single CD. Now the whole of this remarkable work can be enjoyed once again, as it is made available for the first time in a two-CD set.

    Dating from the year after the iconic The Köln Concert and just before Jarrett embarked on his (six-album) Sun Bear Concerts in Japan, Hymns - Spheres was a ground-breaking set of improvisations for its era. They were recorded on the "Trinity Organ", the larger of the two Karl Joseph Riepp (1719-1775) organs at the famous Benedictine Abbey in Ottobeuren, Bavaria. No overdubs, technical ornamentations or additions were utilized, only the pure sound of the organ in the abbey is heard on the recording. Many of the unique effects, although never before used, were accomplished by pulling certain stops part way, while others remained completely open or closed. Amazingly, baroque organs have always had this capability.

    Personnel: Keith Jarrett (organ)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Hymn Of Remembrance
      • 2. Spheres (1st Movement)
      • 3. Spheres (2nd Movement)
      • 4. Spheres (3rd Movement)
      • 5. Spheres (4th Movement)

      Disc 2

      • 1. Spheres (5th Movement)
      • 2. Spheres (6th Movement)
      • 3. Spheres (7th Movement)
      • 4. Spheres (8th Movement)
      • 5. Spheres (9th Movement)
      • 6. Hymn Of Release