Nordic Symphony Orchestra & Anu Tali
Release Date: 04 October 2010
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947637998
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The album 'Strata' presents large-scale music for orchestral forces from highly-regarded Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür - his Sixth Symphony and Concerto for violin and clarinet. It is Tüür's fifth ECM New Series album with compositions that are, in his words, "abstract dramas in sound, with individual characters and an extremely dynamic chain of events; unfolding in a space that is constantly shifting, expanding and contracting."
Introduced on ECM with the 1996 release 'Crystallisatio', Erkki-Sven Tüür has come to be one of the most celebrated of Estonian composers, after Arvo Pärt probably the most widely-played internationally. 'Strata' an album of great power, recorded in Tallinn at the Estonia Concert Hall, is certain to widen Tüür's following. The album is also an ECM debut for charismatic Estonian conductor Anu Tali and the Nordic Symphony Orchestra (which she co-founded). Originally projected as a Finnish-Estonian undertaking, the orchestra has grown to include outstanding players from 15 countries.
Soloists on "Noesis" are German clarinettist (and composer) Jörg Widmann and his violinist sister Carolin, two of the most distinguished instrumentalists of their generation. Carolin Widman has received praise and prizes for her ECM recordings of Schumann's Violin Sonatas and her 20th century recital disc 'Phantasy of Spring'. An album of Jörg Widmann's compositions is scheduled for New Series release in 2011.
Personnel: Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Carolin Widmann (violin), Nordic Symphony Orchestra, Anu Tali (conductor)
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Andras Schiff
Johanna Domotor; Meesun Hong Coleman; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Josef Krips; Various Orchestras
Josef Krips
Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra; Vanni Moretto
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonie, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Robert Kruzik
