Composer: Galina Grigorjeva
Performer: Theodor Sink, Aleksandr Mihhailov, Aleksander Arder, Margus Vellmann, Grigori Rutškin, Estonian National Male Choir
Conductor: Mikk Uleoja
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0679
Release: 2023
Size: 654 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Nox vitae
01. I. Nocturno
02. II. Romance Without Music
03. III. October Myth
04. IV. Cake-Walk on the Dulcimer
05. V. The Snow Is Falling
Diptych
06. I. Lord, Now Let
07. II. Do Not Lament Me, O Mother
07. God is the Lord
08. Prayer
09. Agnus Dei
10. In paradisum
The choral music of Galina Grigorjeva – born in Simperopol in Ukraine in 1962 and based in Tallinn, in Estonia, since 1994 – is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Orthodox Church and in ancient Russian and Slavonic folklore. Although clearly by a contemporary composer, her works have a timeless, even hypnotic, quality that seems to reach back through the ages. She has been working with the Estonian National Male Choir – one of the finest in a country full of choirs – for some years now, and some of the works here were composed or arranged specifically for this recording.