Anja Lechner, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Release Date: 25 March 2016
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948123032
Genres: Classical
Description
'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.
Personnel: Anja Lechner (cello), Kadri Voorand (voice), Tõnu Kõrvits (kannel), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor)
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
Various artists
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
New Dublin Voices
Caterva Musica, Erdal Akkaya
Christian Euler, Paul Rivinius
Stephen Marchionda
Alexander Lonquich; Munchener Kammerorchester; Daniel Giglberger
Yuuko Shiokawa; Andras Schiff
