Miserere

• In it's latest project, the Chorus sine nomine, one of

Austria's leading choirs, under it's founder and director

Johannes Hiemetsberger has turned to a very special work:

the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri in an arrangement for

saxophone and three choirs a cappella by Vladimir Ivanoff.

• The setting of the 51st Psalm from the 1630s, which is

uniquely captivating due to it's simplicity, was a fixed

component of the liturgy of Easter week in the Sixtine

Chapel in Rome for over 250 years and soon achieved cult

status because of the high penalties on it's 'pirate copy'.

• Here, the three-choir ensemble is in a subtle equilibrium

with the young saxophonist Michael Krenn and meets any

trace of sentimental mush with the respect due.

• Recorded in the splendid Viennese acoustic of the Otto

Wagner designed Church am Steinhof, built in the first

decade of the 20th c. on the grounds of the then Lower

Austrian State Asylum.