Tormis - Works for Men’s Voices | Toccata Classics TOCC0073

Tormis - Works for Men’s Voices

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0073

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Svanholm Singers

Conductor

Sofia Soderberg Eberhard

Artists

Svanholm Singers

Conductor

Sofia Soderberg Eberhard

About

The Estonian composer Veljo Tormis (born 1930) has carved a unique position for himself in contemporary music. By marrying the quasi-minimalist rhythmic vigour of Estonian runic singing – a tradition some 3,000 years old – with extended techniques of modern choral writing, he has created a body of music tingling with excitement, energy and power. 
 
Many of the work on this CD – where the composer, playing shaman drum and anvil, joins one of Scandinavia’s brightest young choirs – draw on folk sources in a reaffirmation of Estonian identity; others evoke the forces of nature as a metaphor for political upheaval.

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