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 under Tõnu Kaljuste’s assured direction and by
soloist Anja Lechner. Lechner’s cello is foregrounded in Peegeldused Tasaset Maast (2013), Laul (2012, rev. 2013) and the album’s largest piece Seitsme Linnu Seitse Und (2009,
rev. 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. (ECM Records)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 under Tõnu Kaljuste’s assured direction and by
soloist Anja Lechner. Lechner’s cello is foregrounded in Peegeldused Tasaset Maast (2013), Laul (2012, rev. 2013) and the album’s largest piece Seitsme Linnu Seitse Und (2009,
rev. 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. (ECM Records)
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