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Andres Mustonen

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Alexandre Kneifel:.[Scheduled to be recordedChapter Eight (for church, choir and cello)1) Stanza I-VII,2) Stanza VIII-XXII,3) Stanza XXIII-XXXIIPerformersPatrick Demenga (cello),Latvian National Choir,Riga Cathedral Boys Choir,Kamel Youth Choir,Andres Mustonen conductorRecorded at Jesuit Church, Lucerne, March 2009A work of “prayer” by a Russian composer with “an astonishingly deep sense of beautyECM New Series presents an album of works by Russian composer Alexander Kneifel (1943-2024), conducted by Estonian conductor Andres Mustonen. Chapter Eight” is based on the Old Testament “Song of Songs” and “Song of Solomon” and was conceived as a “social prayer” to be performed “in the most resonant acoustic space of a church. The idea was conceived as a “social prayer” that should be performed “in the most resonant acoustic space of the church. It is a work “without plot or drama,” in Knefel’s wo