Browse: Kõrvits (composer)

Järvi has long championed his homeland’s orchestral composers, and the combination of his tautly expressive Estonian Festival Orchestra (EFO) and the five creatively diverse voices here is captivating. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

From the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and others, we now recognise the sound as a professional one: blend that hardly distinguishes between male and female voices; an ease with extremes... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016 More…

Of the three contemporary works featured, Matthew Martin's is technically the most ambitious...It's an absorbing, highly accomplished piece of vocal writing, tailor-made to stretch a choir of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

More from the ever-renewing, never emptying, storehouse of Baltic song...this Baltic compilation is given gently sympathetic performances by the student singers of Royal Holloway College and... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the texts here are all by Emily Brontë, and a fine Estonian choir has perfectly captured their melancholy expressiveness…it’s hard to imagine a better or more idiomatic reading than this — Choir & Organ, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…