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Holst Singers, Stephen Layton 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. “Here the Holst Singers under the indefatigable Stephen Layton explore this fascinating legacy, a mixture of arrangements of folk songs and original music inspired by the honesty and freshness of their idiom, in performances of characteristic spirit, atmosphere and incisiveness.” The Telegraph, 12th April 2008 “By comparison with the crack Nordic teams, the English voices are admittedly a degree softer-focused in tone and not quite so high-pressure in expression. The composer's compatriots bring even more electricity to the five marvellous songs that make up Livonian Heritage, for example, though the Holst singers find a subtlety and affection that certainly compensates. ” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 “These splendid performances highlight the music's elemental aspects (not just evocations of forces of nature but the spirit of the country, long suppressed by occupiers), the Holst Singers' commitment bringing out the ferocity of some passages with a quite scary intensity.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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