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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eduard Tubin is to Estonia what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, a composer whose 11 symphonies helped bring Estonian music into the world's concert halls and to establish a national identity for Estonian concert music. Kratt, Tubin's only ballet and the first Estonian ballet of any kind, was a key work in establishing a symphonic platform for ...
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 ...
For her solo disc debut, Estonian mezzo-soprano Iris Oja has assembled a sumptuous group of Russian songs. Fourteen of Rachmaninov's more sentimental settings are bookended by two sets of Shostakovich -- his witty Six Spanish Songs, Op. 100, and his ironically populist Five Romances, Op. 98. Best known heretofore for her recordings with the ...
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