HELE-MALL LEEGO (soprano)MARIANNE PÄRNA (alto)
Conductor RISTO JOOST
ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIRTALLINN CHAMBER ORCHESTR...
HELE-MALL LEEGO (soprano)
MARIANNE PÄRNA (alto)
Conductor RISTO JOOST
ESTONIAN PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER CHOIR
TALLINN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Programme:
Tõnu Kõrvits “Moorland Elegies”
Moorland Elegies (2015) is a 50-minute work for mixed choir and string orchestra by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits (b. 1969). This work, a nine-part cycle, is a crowning achievement of its composer Tõnu Kõrvits’s magical impressionism. The work was premiered by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra at Tallinn’s St. John’s Church on 31 October 2015, conducted by Risto Joost. The cycle is shaped and animated by its texts: a selection of poems by the English author Emily Brontë (1818–1848). “Moorland Elegies is a journey into the darkest, most mysterious corners of loneliness: to where one doesn’t dare to peek twice,” Kõrvits has commented. The selection of poetry in Moorland Elegies contains bright, sorrowful, dramatic, and divine scenes that form no coherent plot. There are only spiritual conditions characterized by a certain poetical abstraction, which develop through natural imagery and spatial impressions.
