Remember Me, My Dear

25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance ofJan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember Me, My Dear, recorded during the final tour the group made in October 2014.

Named for the Scottish ballad which concludes it, the programme is emblematic of the range of repertoire the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal quartet explored together - from Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume leRouge, Antoine Brumel to Komitas, Arvo Pärt and more.

It could be said that the Hilliard/Garbarek combination, in concert, transcended its source materials, with early music, contemporary composition and improvisation interfused in the responsive acoustics of sacred spaces. And this final album reminds us that this unique grouping, and its unprecedented exploration of sound, was consistently breathtaking.