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Helena Tulve: Arboles Lloran Por Lluvia

Arianna Savall (soprano, triple harp), Taniel Kirikal (countertenor), Charles Barbier (countertenor), Riivo Kallasmaa (oboe), Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) & Helena Tulve (glasses, wind chimes)

NYYD Quartet, Ensemble Vox Clamantis, Ensemble Hortus Musicus & Estonian National Symphony...

Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve (b.1972) is clearly one with whom to reckon. Four of the works on this portrait... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2014 More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: 4764500
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 60 minutes

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Tulve: Reyah hadas ’ala

Work length14:08

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Charles Barbier (countertenor), Taniel Kirikal (countertenor)
Vox Clamantis, Hortus Musicus
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2009

Tulve: silences / larmes

Work length11:07

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Arianna Savall (soprano), Riivo Kallasmaa (oboe), Helena Tulve (wine glasses)
Recorded: 2010

Tulve: L’Équinoxe de l’âme

Work length11:20

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Arianna Savall (soprano)
NYYD Quartet
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2010

Tulve: Arboles lloran por lluvia

Work length12:23

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Arianna Savall (soprano), Taniel Kirikal (countertenor), Marco Ambrosini (violin)
Vox Clamantis
Jaan-Eik Tulve
Recorded: 2010

Tulve: Extinction des choses vues

Work length11:51

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Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts
Recorded: 2010

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Recorded by the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and various soloists and ensembles in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on Arboles lloran por lluvia (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Estonian composer Helena Tulve, into music that is nourished by both contemporary and ancient currents.

Tulve draws upon a wide-range of inspirational sources. She explores the raw fabric of sound and the nature of timbre in both analytical and instinctive ways, in compositions that are unmistakably her own, yet her work is inclusive - here incorporating aspects of Gregorian chant, melody from Yemenite Jewish tradition, and texts from Sufi, Sephardic and Christian mystic poetry.

Reyah hadas 'ala (The Perfume of the Myrtle Rises) unites the ensemble of the Gregorian chant and the early music instruments. This is the only work in which Tulve has used a pre-existing melody, a song of the Yemenite Jews. Extinction des choses vues (The Extinction of the Things Seen) is an orchestral piece in which the musical ideas are derived from a text by the Jesuit thinker Michel de Certeau called Extase blanche (White Ecstasy).

Strong performances by the soloists, above all by soprano (and harpist) Arianne Savall - featured on silences/larmes (silences/tears), L’Équinoxe de l’âme (The Equinox of the Soul) and the title composition - and the choral, chamber and orchestral forces marshalled by conductors Jan-Eik Tulve and Olari Elts make Helena Tulve’s second ECM New Series recording a most impressive successor to the critically-acclaimed Lijnen (4766389, released in 2008).

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Arianna Savall (soprano, triple harp), Taniel Kirikal (countertenor), Charles Barbier (countertenor), Riivo Kallasmaa (oboe), Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) & Helena Tulve (glasses, wind chimes)

NYYD Quartet, Ensemble Vox Clamantis, Ensemble Hortus Musicus & Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts & Jaan-Eik Tulve

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May 2014

Estonia continues to produce a wealth of composers out of all proportion to its size and population, and Helena Tulve (b.1972) is clearly one with whom to reckon. Four of the works on this portrait disc are vocal, yet this hardly signifies uniformity of expression - hence the sheer timbral allure

20th March 2014

In Tulve's music the thinking always seems more vertical than horizontal; the predominant mood is introspective, almost meditational, the textures and harmonies beautifully imagined, the sense of pulse and forward momentum often elusive.

Helena Tulve: Arboles Lloran Por Lluvia

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