Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
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The Best Of Arvo Pärt
Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse
An admirable and enterprising collection. In the two works for violin and piano, Tasmin Little holds the listener's attention by the intensity of her commitment and the powerful projection of... —
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By the time of the stupendously compelling Symphony No. 2, Tubin appears fully mature, able to drive his thinking forward in long, subtly engineered paragraphs...Tubin specialist Mihhail Gerts... —
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Underpinning lovely playing, it’s the performers’ sensitivity to Part’s mathematically-inspired structures that lends real eloquence to his soundworld. The sense of proportion in tempo, phrase... —
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Orchestral
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Special offer. Tüür - Symphony No. 4 'Magma'
Evelyn Glennie (percussion)
Male Singers from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Estonian National Male Choir
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Glennie is at her most charismatic in Magma, an intoxicating physical score; the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi not only supports her blow for blow but plays the entire... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Heino Eller: Violin Concerto; Fantasy; Symphonic Legend; Symphony No. 2
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts
Estonian composer Heino Eller was a wonderful orchestrator, as revealed in these beautiful, if slightly forgettable, works. Skride, Elts and co, however, give the strongest advocacy for them... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Järvi is a trusted guide through the byways of French repertoire, bringing vigorous joie de vivre to the livelier pieces, such as ‘Fête foraine’, yet sustaining the controlled insouciance of... —
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Martin, F: Golgotha
Judith Gauthier (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Mattijs van de Woerd (baritone) & Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Reuss
A restrained, haunting chromaticism suffuses the music...The choral contributions throughout are engaged and responsive...this is a strong performance of a work where this is limited competition... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Choral
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Grieg: Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23
Peter Mattei (Baritone): Peer Gynt, Camilla Tilling (Soprano): Solveig & Charlotte Hellekant (Mezzo): Anitra
Ellerhein Girls’ Choir, Estonian National Male Choir & Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
…a very clean-cut, airy reading that avoids excessive sweetness and achieves a sense of drama as propulsive as a film score. Järvi's orchestra responds splendidly, with what sounds like a real... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Cantatas
RecommendedAleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi
Bass Alexei Tanovitski could be more nuanced, but there's no faulting the Estonians' open, searing sounds...Bright, open children's voices join authentic choral fervour and the engineering gives... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th May 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Artur Kapp, Mihkel Lüdig and Artur Lemba: Orchestral Works
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Gorgeous, lyrical works from the dawn of Estonian symphonic music-Tchaikovsky meets Sibelius in the case of Artur Kapps symphony, while Lemba goes down the Rachmaninov route. Excellently performed... —
