Holst Singers, Stephen Layton - Veljo Tormis: Choral Music (2008)
BAND/ARTIST: Holst Singers, Stephen Layton
- Title: Veljo Tormis: Choral Music
- Year Of Release: 2008
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:11:50
- Total Size: 235 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. 2 Songs to Words by Ernst Enno: I. Noore suve muinasjutt "Early Summer’s Fairy Tale"
02. 2 Songs to Words by Ernst Enno: II. Kuulmata kuskil kumiseb kodu "Soundlessly Somewhere Murmurings Homeward"
03. 3 Estonian Game Songs: I. Käsikivimäng "The Grindstone Game"
04. 3 Estonian Game Songs: II. Sõrmemähkimismäng "The Finger-Binding Game"
05. 3 Estonian Game Songs: III. Laevamäng "The Ship Game"
06. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": I. Oh, mu hella eidekene "O, My Gentle Tender Mother"
07. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": II. Murueide tütred "Daughters of the Meadow Matron"
08. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": III. Laine veereb "The Wave Rolls"
09. Livonian Heritage: I. Lindude äratamine "Waking the Birds"
10. Livonian Heritage: II. Karjametsas "At Pasture"
11. Livonian Heritage: III. Vastlad "Shrovetide"
12. Livonian Heritage: IV. Unehiireke "Wee Winkie Mouse" (Lullaby)
13. Livonian Heritage: V. Laulis isa, laulis poega "Sang the Father, Sang the Son"
14. Laevas lauldakse "Singing Aboard Ship"
15. Autumn Landscapes: I. On hilissuvi "It Is Late Summer"
16. Autumn Landscapes: II. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved "Clouds Are Racing"
17. Autumn Landscapes: III. Kahvatu valgus "Pale Light"
18. Autumn Landscapes: IV. Valusalt punased lehed "Painfully Red Are the Leaves"
19. Autumn Landscapes: V. Tuul kõnnumaa kohal "Wind over the Barrens"
20. Autumn Landscapes: VI. Külm sügisöö "Cold Autumn Night"
21. Autumn Landscapes: VII. Kanarbik "Heather"
22. 4 Estonian Lullabies: I. Laulan lapsele "I Sing for My Child"
23. 4 Estonian Lullabies: II. Marjal aega magada "It’s Time for the Little Berry to Sleep"
24. 4 Estonian Lullabies: III. Lase kiik käia! "Let the Cradle Swing!"
25. 4 Estonian Lullabies: IV. Äiutus "Lulling"
26. Helletused "Childhood Memory – Herding Calls"
The Holst Singers are acclaimed as one of England’s greatest amateur choirs. The talent and commitment of the individual singers and the leadership of their mercurial conductor, Stephen Layton, ensure that their performances are always of the very highest standards.
Veljo Tormis is—along with Arvo Pärt—Estonia’s most famous living composer, holding an almost mystic status in his home country. He is also the passionate and practical torch-bearer for folk-singing revival, and the integration of an ancient cultural inheritance into thoroughly modern, post-Soviet lives. Interestingly, he trained at the Moscow conservatoire and was steeped in Soviet instruction during his early musical life. His music is almost all written for choirs; few composers have ever been so committed to one genre. Tormis’s choral specialism marks him out from Bartók, Kodály, Vaughan Williams and Grainger, whose pioneering interest in folksong was ultimately less purist given their use of the tunes alone in instrumental or orchestral works: for Tormis, the words and the music are inseparable.
The Holst Singers have recently been invited to Estonia to perform Tormis’s music—a great honour, and a mark of their mastery of the repertoire.
01. 2 Songs to Words by Ernst Enno: I. Noore suve muinasjutt "Early Summer’s Fairy Tale"
02. 2 Songs to Words by Ernst Enno: II. Kuulmata kuskil kumiseb kodu "Soundlessly Somewhere Murmurings Homeward"
03. 3 Estonian Game Songs: I. Käsikivimäng "The Grindstone Game"
04. 3 Estonian Game Songs: II. Sõrmemähkimismäng "The Finger-Binding Game"
05. 3 Estonian Game Songs: III. Laevamäng "The Ship Game"
06. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": I. Oh, mu hella eidekene "O, My Gentle Tender Mother"
07. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": II. Murueide tütred "Daughters of the Meadow Matron"
08. 3 Songs from the Epic "Kalevipoeg": III. Laine veereb "The Wave Rolls"
09. Livonian Heritage: I. Lindude äratamine "Waking the Birds"
10. Livonian Heritage: II. Karjametsas "At Pasture"
11. Livonian Heritage: III. Vastlad "Shrovetide"
12. Livonian Heritage: IV. Unehiireke "Wee Winkie Mouse" (Lullaby)
13. Livonian Heritage: V. Laulis isa, laulis poega "Sang the Father, Sang the Son"
14. Laevas lauldakse "Singing Aboard Ship"
15. Autumn Landscapes: I. On hilissuvi "It Is Late Summer"
16. Autumn Landscapes: II. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved "Clouds Are Racing"
17. Autumn Landscapes: III. Kahvatu valgus "Pale Light"
18. Autumn Landscapes: IV. Valusalt punased lehed "Painfully Red Are the Leaves"
19. Autumn Landscapes: V. Tuul kõnnumaa kohal "Wind over the Barrens"
20. Autumn Landscapes: VI. Külm sügisöö "Cold Autumn Night"
21. Autumn Landscapes: VII. Kanarbik "Heather"
22. 4 Estonian Lullabies: I. Laulan lapsele "I Sing for My Child"
23. 4 Estonian Lullabies: II. Marjal aega magada "It’s Time for the Little Berry to Sleep"
24. 4 Estonian Lullabies: III. Lase kiik käia! "Let the Cradle Swing!"
25. 4 Estonian Lullabies: IV. Äiutus "Lulling"
26. Helletused "Childhood Memory – Herding Calls"
The Holst Singers are acclaimed as one of England’s greatest amateur choirs. The talent and commitment of the individual singers and the leadership of their mercurial conductor, Stephen Layton, ensure that their performances are always of the very highest standards.
Veljo Tormis is—along with Arvo Pärt—Estonia’s most famous living composer, holding an almost mystic status in his home country. He is also the passionate and practical torch-bearer for folk-singing revival, and the integration of an ancient cultural inheritance into thoroughly modern, post-Soviet lives. Interestingly, he trained at the Moscow conservatoire and was steeped in Soviet instruction during his early musical life. His music is almost all written for choirs; few composers have ever been so committed to one genre. Tormis’s choral specialism marks him out from Bartók, Kodály, Vaughan Williams and Grainger, whose pioneering interest in folksong was ultimately less purist given their use of the tunes alone in instrumental or orchestral works: for Tormis, the words and the music are inseparable.
The Holst Singers have recently been invited to Estonia to perform Tormis’s music—a great honour, and a mark of their mastery of the repertoire.
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