The final part is the Numeratorea Inversa (count down) which was commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution of 1989 and it was highly disputed turning the premiere into a riot. Consequentially it was censured in Romania.

"Adina Spire's music is brilliant, evocative, lyrical, and incisive. Intensely political. It is also 'doctrinal' - expressing doctrines of the once-and-future displaced, disenfranchised, and disabused... each note now aspiring to live.

Many of Adina's compositions are calibrated by Romanian tradition and informed by Orthodox liturgy or explore notions of religious practice and the Divine. But her vision is delocalized from her native Romania and draws upon materials that are pan-European and span a period from Medieval times up to the present.

The very old 'borrowed' elements and the instantaneous 'ambient' elements mingle and give rise to a fantastical sort of 'bricolage' that calls into question the very concepts of time and civilization. In a manner similar to Jorge Luis Borges stories, Adina's compositions can make you wonder whether any human history is to be trusted. This disorienting effect can be both beautiful and moving."
(Chamber Music Today, 2009)

1. Cherubic Hymn
2. Kontakion Hymn
3. Trisagion Hymn
4. Numeratorea Inversa

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 11/12/2011
Adina Spire lives in Zurich Switzerland

Tagged as: Classical, Choral

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