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Tüür: Canticum Canticorum Caritatis / Üksvärav, Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir

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Composer
Erkki-Sven Tuur
Artist
Endrik Uksvarav
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Mar 10, 2023
Catalog #
ALPHA917
UPC
3760014199172

About

This album contains a selection of key a cappella choral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür. For the Estonian composer born in 1959, words and music are intimately linked. The number of syllables in a word, the position of the tonic accent, and the word as a cultural phenomenon with a definite meaning are of essential importance. This can be heard in the Kyrie of his Missa Brevis (2013) where, like a spiral, the polyphony of the voices is transformed into a chordal texture at the beginning of the ‘Christe eleison’, and then dissolves into individual voices at the second ‘Kyrie eleison’.

Canticum Canticorum Caritatis (2020) is inspired by St Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians. Tüür dedicated this work to Endrik Üksvärav and Collegium Musicale, the performers on this album. The multidimensional Omnia Mutantur (2020) possesses an extremely clear structure, interweaving the famous thoughts of Ovid and Virgil about the transient nature of all things. Triglosson Trishagion (2008), indebted to the Orthodox tradition and sung in Estonian, Russian and Greek, and Wanderer’s Evening Song (2001) complete this program, which is characterized by a meditative, interiorized approach to the composer.

REVIEW:

Erkki-Sven Tüür is one of the most important Estonian composers of the 20th/21st century, and this album pays outstanding tribute to him with an insight into his work for a cappella choir.

The Collegium Musicale under Endrik Üksvärä succeeds again and again in disentangling the dense sound textures of Tüür’s music, transforming them into a floating sound of delicate intimacy, which now and then can also be very expressive and decisive – for example in the Credo of the Missa Brevis.

The album bears the title of the most recent work on this recording – Canticum canticorum caritatis from 2020 – in which the central concept of caritas is the musical and interpretive focus.

The last work on the recording – Rändaja õhtulaul/Wanderer’s Nightsong – is no less expressive, with recourse to Gregorian chant. Here, too, the Collegium Musicale hits the mood right on the nose time and again: the trembling dreams, the calls from eternity, wrapped in mystically suggestive interpretations.

-- Pizzicato

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Triglosson Trishagion 09:09
    Track
    1
    Title
    Triglosson Trishagion
    Duration
    09:09
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  2. 2 Kyrie 04:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  3. 3 Gloria 03:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  4. 4 Credo 03:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  5. 5 Sanctus et Benedictus 02:18
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sanctus et Benedictus
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  6. 6 Agnus Dei 02:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  7. 7 Omnia Mutantur 05:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    Omnia Mutantur
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  8. 8 Canticum Canticorum Caritatis 13:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    Canticum Canticorum Caritatis
    Duration
    13:02
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav
  9. 9 Rändaja õhtulaul (The Wanderer's Evening Song) 16:59
    Track
    9
    Title
    Rändaja õhtulaul (The Wanderer's Evening Song)
    Duration
    16:59
    Composer
    Erkki-Sven Tüür
    Ensemble
    Collegium Musicale Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Endrik Üksvärav