After recording three discs together of Baltic Voices -- that is, choral music by Baltic composers -- it was inevitable that Paul Hillier and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir would record the Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil, his a cappella setting of Vespers and Matins from the Russian Orthodox Liturgy. Paul Hillier is arguably the finest ...
This collection of short works by Arvo Pärt features a cappella music and some lightly accompanied by an organ. Conducting the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is Paul Hillier, one of Pärt's most celebrated interpreters and the author of a book-length study of his music. Hillier came to Pärt from the field of early music, and in his notes he ...
Let My Prayer Arise brings together three previously released CDs of music written for the liturgy of Orthodox Church, performed by Paul Hillier leading his Theatre of Voices and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Fragments, a collection of mostly brief solo and polyphonic settings of sacred texts, stretches the definition of "Orthodox ...
Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959) is among those composers who draw liberally on the broadest range of musical influences and incorporate them into a personal style that is more an organic integration than a pastiche. Tüür began his musical career in a rock band, and those roots are evident in his music, as well as a native minimalism based on ...
Baltic Voices 3 presents eight highly varied and provocative contemporary pieces by leading composers from Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Poland, all enthusiastically performed by Paul Hillier and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, and various guest artists. Lest this album seem like a collection of ...
Released in celebration of Arvo Pärt's 70th birthday, this survey of his popular choral works is as much a retrospective tribute as it is a sampler of his CDs on Harmonia Mundi. Under the direction of Paul Hillier, a leading authority on Pärt's music and career, the performances by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Theatre of Voices, ...
The Powers of Heaven is the second recording Paul Hillier has made with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These were the first centuries in which coherent literature was produced for Russian Orthodox choirs singing in Old ...
The Grammy nomination bestowed upon the Baltic Voices 2 album in 2004 pointed to the continuing fascination the Eastern European brand of minimalism held for American audiences. It also showed that this predominantly sacred variety of minimalism did not depend solely on the unique biography and outlook of Arvo Pärt, for it is the music of Pärt's ...
Beyond his piano playing, beyond his orchestral conducting, beyond even his instrumental composing, it could be argued that Sergey Rachmaninov was at his best as a composer of a cappella music for the Russian Orthodox Church. In all his other musical activities, Rachmaninov's reputation was as an extravagantly gifted virtuoso -- a pianist whose ...
The Powers of Heaven is the second recording Paul Hillier made with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These were the first centuries in which coherent literature was produced for Russian Orthodox choirs singing in Old Church ...
This collection of short works by Arvo Pärt features a cappella music and some lightly accompanied by an organ. Conducting the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is Paul Hillier, one of Pärt's most celebrated interpreters and the author of a book-length study of his music. Hillier came to Pärt from the field of early music, and in his notes he ...
This collection of music by Arvo Pärt includes six of his choral and orchestral works, five of which were written between 2000 and 2007. This is not music that breaks new ground for the composer. Its austere tone is suffused in mysticism, and it manages to sound both archaic and very new, with a surface that can seem simplistic, but which in fact ...
Based purely on the surface of its sound, the music of Toivo Tulev (born 1958) has little in common with that of his fellow Estonian, Arvo Pärt, but their music is similar in the ways it creates a sense of suspended time. Pärt's music is notable for its harmonic austerity and spare textures, whereas Tulev's is richly, densely chromatic, often to ...
Orthodox Chant in Harmonia Mundi's HM Gold series is a reissue of a disc released in 2003 under the title The Powers of Heaven. It was the second recording Paul Hillier made during his tenure with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and it covers a sampling of Eastern Orthodox sacred literature dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
The male vocal quartet Orlando Consort and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir share a commitment to the same repertoires: the very old and the very new. The earliest and latest pieces on this collaborative CD are separated by about 650 years, Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame, probably written in the 1360s, and works by British ...
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