Stephen Layton Holst Singers - Tormis: Choral Music [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The Holst Singers are acclaimed as one of Englandu2019s greatest amateur choirs. The talent and commitment of the individual singers and the leadership of their mercurial conductor, Stephen Layton, ensure that their performances are always of the very highest standards.rVeljo Tormis isu2014along with Arvo Partu2014Estoniau2019s 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. Tormisu2019s choral specialism marks him out from Bartok, Kodaly, 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.rThe Holst Singers have recently been invited to Estonia to perform Tormisu2019s musicu2014a great honour, and a mark of their mastery of the repertoire.

Songs (2) after Ernst Enno: Early Summer's Fairy Tale

Songs (2) after Ernst Enno: Soundless somewhere, murmurings homeward

Estonian Game Songs (3): no 1, The grindstone game

Estonian Game Songs (3): no 2, The finger-binding game

Estonian Game Songs (3): no 3, The ship game

Songs (3) from Epic 'Kalevipoeg': O my gentle, tender mother

Songs (3) from Epic 'Kalevipoeg': Daughters of the Meadow Matron

Songs (3) from Epic 'Kalevipoeg': The wave rolls

Forgotten Peoples: Livonian Heritage - Walking the birds

Forgotten Peoples: Livonian Heritage - At Pasture

Forgotten Peoples: Livonian Heritage - Shrovetide

Forgotten Peoples: Livonian Heritage - Wee winkie mouse 'Lullaby'

Forgotten Peoples: Livonian Heritage - Sang the father, sang the son

Singing Aboard Ship

Autumn Landscapes: no 1, It is late summer

Autumn Landscapes: no 2, Clouds are racing

Autumn Landscapes: no 3, Pale light

Autumn Landscapes: no 4, Painfully red are the leaves

Autumn Landscapes: no 5, Wind over the barrens

Autumn Landscapes: no 6, Cold autumn night

Autumn Landscapes: no 7, Heather

Estonian Lullabies (4): no 1, I sing for my child

Estonian Lullabies (4): no 2, It's time for the little berry to sleep

Estonian Lullabies (4): no 3, Let the cradle swing

Estonian Lullabies (4): no 4, Lulling

Herding Calls

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