Tüür : Mythos

Approfondimenti

Erkki-Sven Tüür's Mythos, which occupies more than half of the present recording, was composed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Estonian Republic in 2018. It's not strictly a programmatic work, but online listeners may wish to seek out Tüür's description of the music: the opening, which seems to arise out of the formless void in the manner of Mahler (absolutely a major influence on this composer), actually is inspired by sea creation myths of the Finno-Ugric peoples. The work is a tour de force of orchestration, with sonorities that sometimes sound electronic even though only conventional instruments are used. Tüür's handling of the winds is especially ingenious; among many examples, consider the Star Trek transporter-like sound that appears at 23:00 and 24:00, and underlies the action over much of the next several minutes. These are flawlessly rendered by the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, and in general, it would be hard to imagine a more idiomatic and committed performance than the ones these works receive here. The textures are quite complex but are completely natural and intelligible in this recording. The other two works on the album, the short Incantation of Tempest and the ecologically oriented Sow the Wind, fit with the theme of chaos and are also memorable. The three pieces were recorded at different places and times, but they hang together remarkably well. Those last two works are recorded live and don't have quite the crackling engineering of Mythos, recorded at the Estonia Concert Hall, but this is a satisfying package showing that musical nationalism is not dead, and that offers an ideal introduction to Tüür's recent work.

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Dettagli della registrazione originale : Recorded in July 2016 in Pärnu Concert Hall (Incantation of Tempest), January 2018 in Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn (Symphony No.9 "Mythos") & July 2019 in Pärnu Concert Hall (Sow the Wind)