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Lamentations of Jeremiah - Peter Togni receives Masterworks Arts Award Nomination
Lamentations of Jeremiah - Inspiration from when grief met hope
Lamentations of Jeremiah - TOGNI Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
Lamentations of Jeremiah - "THe Most Original and Affecting"
Lamentations of Jeremiah - Togni's Lamentations reviewed in the Independent
Lamentations of Jeremiah - "A GROUNDBREAKING WORK"

2009
Lamentations of Jeremiah - Stunning Recording
Lamentations of Jeremiah - Potent setting of LAmentations of Jeremiah
Lamentations of Jeremiah - "The sadness of Centuries"
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"The sadness of Centuries"
December 8, 2009, 12:00 am

Elissa Poole
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published on Monday, Dec. 07, 2009 12:10PM EST
Last updated on Monday, Dec. 07, 2009 5:32PM EST
Peter Anthony Togni: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae

Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet
Elmer Iseler Singers
Lydia Adams, conductor
ECM New Series
The words of Jeremiah – the Bible's Cassandra, his prophecies of doom unheeded – have inspired composers for centuries, from Palestrina in the 16th century to Leonard Bernstein in the 20th. Peter Anthony Togni, whose Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae is the first Canadian work to be recorded for the eclectic ECM New Series label (and who is widely known as a CBC Radio 2 host), is perhaps the most recent of these. Togni's Lamentations share aesthetic and spiritual ground with such composers as Osvaldo Golijov, Arvo Part and John Taverner, but it is the solo bass clarinet's plangent, gritty and sometimes shrill personification of the prophet – which sounds “with the sadness of centuries” against the close, modal harmonies of the choir – that gives this setting its potency.


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