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Mihkel Kerem: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrew Manze

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Format: CD

Cat No: TOCC0776

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Release Date:  06 February 2026

Label:  Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060113447760

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Mihkel Kerem

  • Description

    The Estonian composer Mihkel Kerem - born in Tallinn in 1981 and Joint Assistant Leader in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015 - used the Covid lockdown to produce no fewer than four symphonies, two of them, his Seventh and Eighth, conceived as a contrasting pair. Kerem's dark and ominous Seventh Symphony, like that of Sibelius, plots a huge sonata-form arch, growing from and back into its opening material. Its soundworld sits somewhere between Sibelius and Schnittke, combining a sense of natural symphonic growth with dramatic twists of kaleidoscopic textural variety. No. 8, which also nods to Sibelius' Seventh by quoting its celebrated trombone theme, is a vast, unhurried accelerando, its three linked movements tapping into the Nordic-Baltic tradition of using the controlled power of the orchestra to suggest the vastness of nature.