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  • Evening Morning Day
    Composer(s) David Lang
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Evening Morning Day

    08:15
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  • Have You e’er seen the Morning Sun?
    Composer(s) Henry Lawes
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Have You e’er seen the Morning Sun?

    02:29
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  • Thus the Ever Grateful Spring (Spring)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Thus the Ever Grateful Spring (Spring)

    02:26
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  • Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Here’s the Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer)

    03:10
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  • See My Many Coloured Fields (Autumn)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    See My Many Coloured Fields (Autumn)

    02:45
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  • Now Winter Comes Slowly (Winter)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Now Winter Comes Slowly (Winter)

    02:27
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  • Crystallized
    Composer(s) Meredi
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Crystallized

    10:03
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  • Hypophysis
    Composer(s) Sjaella
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Hypophysis

    08:53
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  • Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow?
    Composer(s) Robert Johnson
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow?

    02:02
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  • See, Even Night Herself is Here (Night)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    See, Even Night Herself is Here (Night)

    03:25
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  • I Am Come to Lock All Fast (Mystery)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    I Am Come to Lock All Fast (Mystery)

    01:38
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  • One Charming Night (Secrecy)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    One Charming Night (Secrecy)

    02:13
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  • Hush, no More (Sleep)
    Composer(s) Henry Purcell
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Hush, no More (Sleep)

    03:21
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  • Stars
    Composer(s) Ēriks Ešenvalds
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Stars

    03:45
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  • A Triptych for Our Time: I Apocalypse?
    Composer(s) Paola Prestini
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    A Triptych for Our Time: I Apocalypse?

    04:00
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  • A Triptych for Our Time: II Dead Soul
    Composer(s) Paola Prestini
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    A Triptych for Our Time: II Dead Soul

    04:20
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  • A Triptych for Our Time: III Ascending Stairways
    Composer(s) Paola Prestini
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    A Triptych for Our Time: III Ascending Stairways

    02:08
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  • Vacuum
    Composer(s) Sjaella
    Artist(s) Sjaella

    Vacuum

    07:54
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Total running time: 75 minutes.

    Album information

    The female vocal ensemble Sjaella contrasts new arrangements of English songs of the seventeenth century, with contemporary pieces, such as David Lang’s Evening, Morning, Day and new commissions from Paola Prestini, Shara Nova and Philip Lawson.

    Sjaella is the vocal ensemble of the moment to discover! Six talented and effervescent female singers who are not afraid of anything and demonstrate as much in a programme entitled Origins. Out of the ether, into existence. The initial point. The beginning. The ever-recurring origin. Between minimalism and picturesque arias arise light, time, and all life. Sjaella focuses on natural cycles that have surrounded us since the dawn of time. In every era, people have experienced the changes in the seasons, the gentle rhythm of day and night, the individual flow of the body, and the transience of rebirth.

    All of these themes are presented as a unit, which forms a cycle of key concepts from the origin of life to a post-apocalyptic vacuum. The music contrasts and combines new arrangements of English songs of the seventeenth century, some of them from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with contemporary pieces, including those in the American Minimalist style, such as David Lang’s Evening, Morning, Day. By including mainly commissioned works, the album shows Sjaella’s close collaboration with renowned international composers such as Paola Prestini, singer-songwriter Shara Nova and former King’s Singers member Philip Lawson.