Tonu Korvits - Kreek’s Notebook
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA67968
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st July 2013
Contents
Works
Kreek’s NotebookThe night is darkening round me
Lacrimosa
Lugums naktij (Prayer to the night)
Fatamorgana (Mirage)
In memoriam
Artists
Choir of Royal HollowayBritten Sinfonia
Conductor
Rupert GoughWorks
Kreek’s NotebookThe night is darkening round me
Lacrimosa
Lugums naktij (Prayer to the night)
Fatamorgana (Mirage)
In memoriam
Artists
Choir of Royal HollowayBritten Sinfonia
Conductor
Rupert GoughAbout
The Choir of Royal Holloway have proved themselves as inspirational performers of contemporary Baltic music through their previous recordings.
The main work on this fascinating album is based on Estonian folk hymns, an unusual variant of folk melodies, collected in the early twentieth century for the first time by Cyrillus Kreek, who was the Estonian equivalent of Bartók or Grainger. Most of these religious folk songs were originally eighteenth-century Lutheran hymns which have been passed across generations and embellished with elements of secular folk-singing. During the Soviet regime, the singing of these religious songs was forbidden and this cultural genre was all but forgotten.
By the end of the twentieth century fresh light could be shone on these folk collections, and Tõnu Kõrvits (born 1969) was particularly struck by the fresh possibilities and newly discovered meanings of folk hymns. In writing Kreek’s Notebook Kõrvits pays homage to Cyrillus Kreek while presenting a contemporary view of folk hymns.
Although there is a dramatic unity to this eight-movement work, there is much diversity in timbre and scoring. The effect is improvisatory in the creative ornamentation of the vocal lines, and suffused with dreamy textures that bring to mind the great tradition of Eastern European choral writing.
Sound/Video
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1Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 1. May Jesus, Thee Be Praised
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2Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 2. Now The Day Has Passed
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3Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 3. I Rejoice In Thy Bleeding Wounds
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4Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 4. Dear Jesus, Do Receive
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5Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 5. I Shall Be Your Care
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6Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 6. Fly From Your Sorrows
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7Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 7. My Soul, Oh So Happy
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8Korvits: Kreek's Notebook - 8. I Gaze At The Mountain
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9Korvits: The Night Is Darkening Round Me
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10Maskats: Lacrimosa
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11Plakidis: In Memoriam
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12Plakidis: Mirage - 1. In The Hot Dust Of The Desert
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13Plakidis: Mirage - 2. Why Not Sing
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14Plakidis: Mirage - 3. The Forest Elves
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15Maskats: Prayer To The Night
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