Estonian Premieres
Máté Szücs, Indrek Leivategija, Marius Järvi, Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
Järvi has long championed his homeland’s orchestral composers, and the combination of his tautly expressive Estonian Festival Orchestra (EFO) and the five creatively diverse voices here is captivating.
Estonian Premieres
Máté Szücs, Indrek Leivategija, Marius Järvi, Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
Järvi has long championed his homeland’s orchestral composers, and the combination of his tautly expressive Estonian Festival Orchestra (EFO) and the five creatively diverse voices here is captivating.
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After two recordings released on Alpha Classics (including a monograph devoted to Erkki-Sven Tüür – ALPHA595 – that won a Diapason d’Or in 2020), the Estonian Festival Orchestra and Paavo Järvi present six works by five internationally renowned Estonian composers: Tõnu Kõrvits, Ülo Krigul,Helena Tulve, Tauno Aints and Lepo Sumera. Four of these pieces were commissioned by the Pärnu Music Festival, founded and directed by Paavo Järvi. This traversal of six original sound-worlds highlights the richness of Estonian musical creation and its multiple facets.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceJune 2022
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BBC Music MagazineSeptember 2022Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Contemporary Music
September 2022
Järvi has long championed his homeland’s orchestral composers, and the combination of his tautly expressive Estonian Festival Orchestra (EFO) and the five creatively diverse voices here is captivating.
September 2022
The performances on this programme of ‘Estonian Premieres’ are as characteristic as you’d expect – the burnished brass in Ülo Krigul’s The Bow (2021) and the collective urgency in the same composer’s Chordae (2013).
June 2022
Each of these six works by contemporary Estonian composers has its own richly evocative sound-world, from the iridescent beauty of Tõnu Kõrvits's To the Moonlight to the taut energy of Ülo Krigul's The Bow and Lepo Sumera's Olympic Music I (the latter written for the Tallinn Sailing Regatta at the 1980 Summer Olympics and combining high adrenaline and ceremonial grandeur in equal measure).
