Lux Aeterna (Terje Rypdal album)

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Released 2002 Length 60:43 Artist Terje Rypdal Producer Manfred Eicher Genre Jazz		Recorded July 2000 Lux Aeterna (2000) Vossabrygg (2005) Release date 2002 Label ECM Records

Similar Skywards, Vossabrygg, Odyssey, Undisonus, To Be Continued

Lux aeterna 1994

Lux Aeterna is an album by guitarist Terje Rypdal recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "There is nothing remotely cold about this work; it is warm and dark and stunning in its stark presentation that is so deceptively complex. By the time the fifth and title movement commences, the listener has been to many worlds within the sonorous terrains of the heart... Terje Rypdal is making the greatest music of his life".

Track listing

All compositions by Terje Rypdal

"1st Movement: Luminous Galaxy" - 15:51
"2nd Movement: Orchestral Interlude" - 11:28
"3rd Movement: Fjelldåpen" - 7:22
"4th Movement: Organ Interlude" - 10:44
"5th Movement: Lux Aeterna" - 15:20

Personnel

Terje Rypdal — electric guitar

Palle Mikkelborg — trumpet

Iver Kleive — church organ

Åshild Stubø Gundersen — soprano

Bergen Chamber Ensemble conducted by Kjell Seim

Double Bass – Adam Kieszek

Cello – Bodil Erdal & Gunn Berit Kleiveland

Percussion – Ellen Bredesen-Vestby & Ivar Kolve

Piano – Thorstein Tellnes

Viola – Anders Rensvik, Hans Gunnar Hagen & Nils Olav Solberg

First Violin – Elise Båtnes (leader), Annar Follesø, Ellisiv Sollesnes, Harald Blø & Jon Flølo

Second Violin – Elisabeth Svanes, Elna Føleide Selle, Geir Atle Stangenes & Gunnvor Holtlien

Songs

1First Movement: Luminous Galaxy15:49
2Second Movement: Fjelldapen11:28
3Third Movement: Escalator7:23

References

Lux Aeterna (Terje Rypdal album) Wikipedia

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