Composer: Veljo Tormis
Performer: Holst Singers
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67601
Release: 2008
Size: 235 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Kaks laulu Ernst Enno sõnadele
01. I. Noore suve muinasjutt ‘Early summer’s fairy tale’
02. II. Kuulmata kuskil kumiseb kodu ‘Soundlessly somewhere murmurings homeward’
Kolm eesti mängulaulu
03. I. Käsikivimäng ‘The grindstone game’
04. II. Sõrmemähkimismäng ‘The finger-binding game’
05. III. Laevamäng ‘The ship game’
Kolm laulu eeposest “Kalevipoeg”
06. I. Oh, mu hella eidekene ‘O, my gentle tender mother’
07. II. Murueide tütred ‘Daughters of the Meadow Matron’
08. III. Laine veereb ‘The wave rolls’
Livonian heritage
09. I. Lindude äratamine ‘Waking the birds’
10. II. Karjametsas ‘At Pasture’
11. III. Vastlad ‘Shrovetide’
12. IV. Unehiireke ‘Wee winkie mouse (Lullaby)’
13. V. Laulis isa, laulis poega ‘Sang the father, sang the son’
14. Laevas lauldakse
Sügismaastikud (Autumn Landscape)
15. I. On hilissuvi ‘It is late summer’
16. II. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved ‘Clouds are racing’
17. III. Kahvatu valgus ‘Pale light’
18. IV. Valusalt punased lehed ‘Painfully red are the leaves’
19. V. Tuul kõnnumaa kohal ‘Wind over the barrens’
20. VI. Külm sügisöö ‘Cold autumn night’
21. VII. Kanarbik ‘Heather’
4 Estonian lullabies
22. I. Laulan lapsele ‘I sing for my child’
23. II. Marjal aega magada ‘It’s time for the little berry to sleep’
24. III. Lase kiik käia! ‘Let the cradle swing!’
25. IV. Äiutus ‘Lulling’
26. Helletused [Childhood Memory – Herding Calls]
Veljo Tormis is — along with Arvo Pärt — Estonia’s most famous living composer, holding an almost mystic status in his home country. He is also the passionate and practical torch-bearer for folk-singing revival, and the integration of an ancient cultural inheritance into thoroughly modern, post-Soviet lives. Interestingly, he trained at the Moscow conservatoire and was steeped in Soviet instruction during his early musical life. His music is almost all written for choirs; few composers have ever been so committed to one genre. Tormis’s choral specialism marks him out from Bartók, Kodály, Vaughan Williams and Grainger, whose pioneering interest in folksong was ultimately less purist given their use of the tunes alone in instrumental or orchestral works: for Tormis, the words and the music are inseparable.