Tõnu Kõrvits: Mirror (CD) 【ECM】

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.

Anja Lechner - Violoncello
Kadri Voorand - Voice
Tõnu Kõrvits - Kantele
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir 
Tõnu Kaljuste - Conductor

【曲目】
01. Peegeldused Tasasest Maast (The Reflections from a Plainland)

Labürindid (Labyrinths)
02. labyrinth I
03. labyrinth II
04. labyrinth III
05. labyrinth IV
06. labyrinth V
07. labyrinth VI
08. labyrinth VII

09. Tasase Maa Laul (The Song of The Plainland)

Seitsme Linnu Seitse Und (Seven Dreams Of Seven Birds)
10. Dream I
11. Dream II
12. Dream III
13. Dream IV
14. Dream V
15. Dream VI
16. Dream VII

17. Viimane Laev (The Last Ship)

18. Laul (Song)

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編號：ECM2327
條碼：0028948123032