Erkki-Sven Tüür: Symphony No. 7 & Piano Concerto

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Dense, complex, mysterious, passionate, spellbinding, sometimes strage and always original, Tüür's Piano Concerto and choral Symphony receive stunning performances enhanced by superb sound quality. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014 More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2014
Catalogue No: 4810675
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 62 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2014

Shortlisted - Contemporary

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Tüür: Piano Concerto

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Laura Mikkola (piano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi
Recorded: 2010-06
Recording Venue: hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt a. M.

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Tüür: Symphony No. 7

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Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Chor
Paavo Järvi
Recorded: 2009-06
Recording Venue: Alte Oper, Frankfurt/M.

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The sixth ECM New Series album by Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür presents two major works, commissioned by the Hessische Rundfunk and given their premieres by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Both works are powered by what Tüür calls his “vectorial writing method”, a means of developing pieces from “a source code - a gene which, as it mutates and grows, connects the dots in the fabric of the whole composition”.

Tüür’s Seventh Symphony (2009), dedicated to the Dalai Lama “and his lifelong endeavours”, is a choral symphony like no other. It is a potent work in which the orchestra only intermittently frames and supports the voices. The texts that the NDR Choir sings include words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada but also utterances of more contemporary visionaries, from Gandhi to Mother Theresa.

The earlier Piano Concerto was premiered at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, where this album was recorded. As Paul Griffiths notes, “The concerto is also music on two planes, now orchestra and piano, though this time both are continuous and continually in the process of meeting.” Finnish pianist Laura Mikkola gives an exceptional performance, responding to the surging waves of the orchestra and the inspired direction of Paavo Järvi.

The “vectorial” process, already reflected in works including Oxymoron, Strata and Noesis (all recorded on previous ECM albums), has led to a body of work quite distinct from Tüür’s earlier, discursive ‘metalinguistic’ music in which diverse idioms - from serialism to minimalism - were contrasted, interwoven, reconciled. Tüür’s 21st century music foregoes “unnecessary eclecticism”, and manifests instead an organic coherence. These are pieces of determined, individual temperament.

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June 2014

Dense, complex, mysterious, passionate, spellbinding, sometimes strage and always original, Tüür's Piano Concerto and choral Symphony receive stunning performances enhanced by superb sound quality.

May 2014

the combination of logic and boldness is engrossing from first to last.

May 2014

Tüür is at his most subversive in the works on this new recording...As usual, ECM's recording of these performances, which are surely the most committed one could imagine, is outstanding.

23rd March 2014

A latter-day exercise in hippie idealism? Not at all. It’s an impressive, if extravagant, symphonic argument, vivid and often violent, with a huge finale.

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Symphony No. 7 & Piano Concerto

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