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Tormis - Choral Music | Hyperion CDA67601

Tormis - Choral Music

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67601

Barcode: 0034571176017

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st March 2008

Contents

Works

Tormis
Two songs to words by Ernst Enno - Early summer’s fairy tale / Soundlessly somewhere murmurings homeward

Tormis
Three Estonian game songs - The grindstone game / The finger-binding game / The ship game

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Three songs from the epic ‘Kalev’s Son’ - O, my gentle tender mother / Daughters of the Meadow Matron / The wave rolls

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Livonian heritage

Tormis
Singing aboard ship

Tormis
Autumn landscapes

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Four Estonian lullabies - I sing for my child / It’s time for the little berry to sleep / Let the cradle swing! / Lulling

Tormis
Helletused Childhood memory (Herding calls)

Artists

Holst Singers

Conductor

Stephen Layton

Works

Tormis
Two songs to words by Ernst Enno - Early summer’s fairy tale / Soundlessly somewhere murmurings homeward

Tormis
Three Estonian game songs - The grindstone game / The finger-binding game / The ship game

Tormis
Three songs from the epic ‘Kalev’s Son’ - O, my gentle tender mother / Daughters of the Meadow Matron / The wave rolls

Tormis
Livonian heritage

Tormis
Singing aboard ship

Tormis
Autumn landscapes

Tormis
Four Estonian lullabies - I sing for my child / It’s time for the little berry to sleep / Let the cradle swing! / Lulling

Tormis
Helletused Childhood memory (Herding calls)

Artists

Holst Singers

Conductor

Stephen Layton

About

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’ 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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