Tonu Korvits: Mirror

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From the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and others, we now recognise the sound as a professional one: blend that hardly distinguishes between male and female voices; an ease with extremes... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Release Date: 25th Mar 2016
Catalogue No: 4812303
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 62 minutes

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Veljo Tormis, Tõnu Kõrvits: Peegeldused Tasasest Maast

Work length5:07

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Anja Lechner (cello)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

Kõrvits: Labürindid

Work length19:26

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Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

Labyrinth I

Track length3:11

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Labyrinth II

Track length1:41

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Labyrinth III

Track length2:15

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Labyrinth IV

Track length2:31

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Labyrinth V

Track length2:42

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Labyrinth VI

Track length2:31

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Labyrinth VII

Track length4:35

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Veljo Tormis, Tõnu Kõrvits: Tasase Maa Laul

Work length4:55

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Kadri Voorand (voice), Tõnu Kõrvits (dulcimer)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

Kõrvits: Seitsme Linnu Seitse Und

Work length23:38

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Anja Lechner (cello)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

Dream I

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Dream II

Track length2:42

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Dream III

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Dream IV

Track length2:31

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Dream V

Track length1:38

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Dream VI

Track length3:52

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Dream VII

Track length4:12

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Veljo Tormis, Tõnu Kõrvits: Viimane Laev

Work length6:26

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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

Kõrvits: Laul

Work length3:27

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Anja Lechner (cello)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded: 2013-02-08
Recording Venue: Methodist Church, Tallinn

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‘Mirror’ is the first ECM New Series album from Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvitz (born 1969), who emphasizes his links to his homeland’s music at several levels.

The album begins with a fantasy on a song by Veljo Tormis. Like the older composer, Kõrvitz has been influenced by folk song and archaic musical tradition, which find their echo in the refined and texturally-rich spectrum of his own, labyrinthine pieces. His music is well served here by the Tallin Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste’s assured direction and by soloist Anja Lechner.

Lechner’s cello is foregrounded in ‘Peegeldused Tasaset Maast’ (2013), ‘Laul’ (2012, revised 2013) and the album’s largest work ‘Seitsme Linnu Seitse Und’ (2009, revised 2012), a collaboration with the poet Maarja Kangro, which is both choral suite and cello concerto. In these “seven dreams of seven birds” the choir sings in Estonian and English and the cello conjures both birdsong and swooping flight. ‘Tasase Maa’ (Song of the Plainland), a fresh arrangement of a Tormis melody has Kadri Voorand as vocal soloist, supported by strings and by Tõnu Kõrvitz on kannel, the Estonian psaltery.

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July 2016

From the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and others, we now recognise the sound as a professional one: blend that hardly distinguishes between male and female voices; an ease with extremes of volume; and a rich, sonorous delivery that’s a choral cousin of Leopold Stokowski’s ‘free-bowing’ principle

7th April 2016

Kaljuste and his Tallinn players are well versed in evoking picturesque, moody expanses, and in Labyrinths the pale strings circle and shift in and out of focus, all very icy and, at times, quite pretty.

Tonu Korvits: Mirror

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