Tüür: Ärkamine (Awakening)

Featuring

Daniel Reuss
Sinfonietta Riga
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Erkki-Sven Tüür

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Tüür's music often explores musical opposites, such as tonality versus atonality and regular versus irregular rhythms, to create a 'metalanguage'.

Composer Biography

Erkki-Sven Tüür, the composer, began his musical career in the 1970s as the leader of the progressive rock band In Spe, influenced by groups like King Crimson and Genesis.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Tüür's music is described as both individual and universal, avant-garde yet preserving traditions, incorporating diverse textures from clusters to electronic sounds.

Performer Biography

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC), founded in 1981 by Tõnu Kaljuste, has earned a Grammy award and eight nominations.

Compositional Technique

Beginning with his Symphony no. 4 ('Magma', 2002), Tüür developed a 'vectorial method', a flexible 'source-code system' based on intervals and vectors.

Performer Biography

Sinfonietta Riga, formed in 2006, is an orchestra of 34 young musicians that has received the Great Music award of Latvia in both 2007 and 2008.

Performer Biography

Daniel Reuss, the conductor, has been the artistic director and chief conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir since 2008 and made his English National Opera debut in 2007.