Lux Aeterna (Terje Rypdal album) explained

Lux Aeterna
Type:live
Artist:Terje Rypdal
Cover:Lux Aeterna (Terje Rypdal album).jpg
Released:2002
Recorded:July 19, 2000
Venue:Moldejazz
Molde Domirke
Genre:Jazz
Length:60:43
Label:ECM
ECM 1818
Producer:Manfred Eicher
Chronology:Terje Rypdal
Prev Title:Double Concerto / 5th Symphony
Prev Year:1999
Next Title:Vossabrygg
Next Year:2005

Lux Aeterna is a live album by Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal recorded at Moldejazz in Molde, Norway on July 19, 2000 and released on ECM in 2002. Rypdal is backed by trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, organist Iver Kleive, singer Åshild Stubø Gundersen, and the Bergen Chamber Ensemble conducted by Kjell Seim.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "There is nothing remotely cold about this work; it is warm and dark and stunning in its stark presentation that is so deceptively complex. By the time the fifth and title movement commences, the listener has been to many worlds within the sonorous terrains of the heart... Terje Rypdal is making the greatest music of his life."[2]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1800/1818.php ECM discography
  2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 7, 2011