Parce Mihi Domine - Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble

The album Officium was released in 1994 but it took me 22 years to first hear about it. On Wikipedia i found following quote: “Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano saxophone soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly“. It was Cristóbal de Morales wh
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