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With their album dedicated to Psalms of Repentance by Alfred Schnittke, and two works by Arvo Pärt (BIS), this same line-up won some fine prizes (Diapason d'Or, Gramophone). Kaspars Putniņš leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir as they continue on their way through the works of Arvo Pärt with four very seductive scores (including the choral version of Summa): they are starting here, and this forms an ideal introduction to the programme's most major work, which is surely Via Crucis, S. 53 by Franz Liszt, an ample score for piano and choir finished in 1879 in Budapest, recordings of which are all too rare. The voices of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir are sublime here, possessed of an enrapturing depth and purity. This Via Crucis is a perfect summary of the later, most modern Liszt: the writing for piano "comes" directly from the final part of the Years of Pilgrimage. There are such striking similarities with pieces like Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens or the Sursum corda that one might well wonder whether certain pages from Via Crucis (number 12, Jesus stirbt am Kreuze, for example) aren't in fact elaborations from these. In this work, Franz Liszt is developing astoundingly modern harmonies, which draw out a naked form of Wagner's chromatisms, rarefying them: all the more so given that pianist Kalle Randalu tends to put the accent on their dryness. This is the essence of the end of Romanticism, in an absolutely hypnotic record. © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
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Arvo Pärt, Composer - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
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Arvo Pärt, Composer - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
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Arvo Pärt, Composer - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Arvo Pärt, Composer - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
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Via Crucis, S. 53 (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Rainer Vilu, Artist - Ülle Tuisk, Artist, MainArtist - Maarja Helstein, Artist - Joosep Trumm, Artist
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Franz Liszt, Composer - Aarne Talvik, Artist, MainArtist - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Olari Viikholm, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Annika Lõhmus, Artist, MainArtist - Miina Pärn, Artist - Cätly Talvik, Artist
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Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Annika Lõhmus, Artist, MainArtist - Miina Pärn, Artist - Cätly Talvik, Artist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Olari Viikholm, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Annika Lõhmus, Artist, MainArtist - Miina Pärn, Artist - Cätly Talvik, Artist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Olari Viikholm, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Annika Lõhmus, Artist, MainArtist - Miina Pärn, Artist - Cätly Talvik, Artist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Franz Liszt, Composer - Kalle Randalu, Artist - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Choir - Kaspars Putnins, Conductor - Marianne Pärna, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Ondine (P) 2019 Ondine
Album review
With their album dedicated to Psalms of Repentance by Alfred Schnittke, and two works by Arvo Pärt (BIS), this same line-up won some fine prizes (Diapason d'Or, Gramophone). Kaspars Putniņš leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir as they continue on their way through the works of Arvo Pärt with four very seductive scores (including the choral version of Summa): they are starting here, and this forms an ideal introduction to the programme's most major work, which is surely Via Crucis, S. 53 by Franz Liszt, an ample score for piano and choir finished in 1879 in Budapest, recordings of which are all too rare. The voices of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir are sublime here, possessed of an enrapturing depth and purity. This Via Crucis is a perfect summary of the later, most modern Liszt: the writing for piano "comes" directly from the final part of the Years of Pilgrimage. There are such striking similarities with pieces like Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens or the Sursum corda that one might well wonder whether certain pages from Via Crucis (number 12, Jesus stirbt am Kreuze, for example) aren't in fact elaborations from these. In this work, Franz Liszt is developing astoundingly modern harmonies, which draw out a naked form of Wagner's chromatisms, rarefying them: all the more so given that pianist Kalle Randalu tends to put the accent on their dryness. This is the essence of the end of Romanticism, in an absolutely hypnotic record. © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:19
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Ondine
- Genre: Classical
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