Browse: Concertos, Tüür (composer)

Dense, complex, mysterious, passionate, spellbinding, sometimes strage and always original, Tüür's Piano Concerto and choral Symphony receive stunning performances enhanced by superb sound quality. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014 More…

Tüür's material is passionately direct, with intricate, trailing lines and passages of ominously intense stasis puncuated by explosive climaxes. Lintu shapes it with spirit - and most convincingly. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Like his older Estonian contemporary, Arvo Pärt, but much less austerely, Erkki-Sven Tüür seeks to communicate feeling as directly and engulfingly as possible...the elemental force with which... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Big band, electric guitar and symphony orchestra. It's remarkable how successfully they're integrated by Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür...The performance is admirably tight and well-coordinated... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Tüür's friend and fellow Estonian Paavo Järvi exerts absolute control over the CBSO, for whom one of the other works, Exodus, was commissioned. This is the team that gave the first performance... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 11th August 2003 More…

Kaasik’s cello affords haunting Baltic visions at once bracing (Pärt) , inscrutable (Sink), and evocative (Kōrvits). — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This enjoyable programme of works by Erkki-Sven Tüür… helps to confirm this young(ish) Estonian composer as an important contemporary voice. The performances all seem to be of the highest quality,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…