Beat Furrer: Works for Choir and Ensemble

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This beautifully produced disc of choral music could usefully challenge [Furrer’s] reputation and introduce him to a broader audience…quiet poise and patience are…supplied by the Uusinta Ensemble — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…

Release Date: 29th Jul 2016
Catalogue No: TOCC0360
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 65 minutes

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Furrer: Enigma I

Work length3:32

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: Enigma II

Work length3:52

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: Enigma III

Work length2:13

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek
Recorded: 1992

Furrer: Enigma IV

Work length2:41

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: Enigma V

Work length15:34

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: Enigma VI

Work length4:15

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Helsinki Chamber Choir
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: Voices (Still)

Work length13:23

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Helsinki Chamber Choir, Uusinta Ensemble
Nils Schweckendiek

Furrer: ...cold and calm and moving

Work length20:06

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The music of Beat Furrer, Swiss-born (in 1954) and Vienna-based, has long attracted attention for its subtle exploration of the possibilities of the human voice.

His six enigmas, a cycle of a cappella settings of Leonardo da Vinci, demonstrates its striking emotional range, from rich, almost Romantic tonal warmth to dramatic avant-garde expressionism.

This is the first recording of the six enigmas and of voices – still for mixed choir and ensemble, which sets Virgil in the original Latin and in Furrer’s own German translation. All eight works on this album underline Furrer’s fondness for exploring sonority, timbre and texture.

The Helsinki Chamber Choir is Finland’s only professional chamber choir, its wide-ranging repertoire includes music from the Renaissance to the present day and it is particularly highly regarded for its work with new music. The choir appears frequently at festivals in Finland and abroad and collaborates with symphony orchestras, period-instrument ensembles and contemporary-music groups. The Uusinta Ensemble is a contemporary-music ensemble founded in 1998 in Helsinki ad with an international outreach and repertoire. To date it has premiered over a hundred works by the leading composers of the present day, such as Mark Andre, Chaya Czernowin, Hèctor Parra, Kaija Saariaho and Michel van der Aa.

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November 2016

This beautifully produced disc of choral music could usefully challenge [Furrer’s] reputation and introduce him to a broader audience…quiet poise and patience are…supplied by the Uusinta Ensemble

31st July 2016

Short settings of prophetic texts by Leonardo da Vinci, they accrue a large and complex declamatory power.

28th July 2016

a hugely attractive collection: a journey into ever-increasing complexity that is full of subtle transformations and strikingly original, sometimes strikingly simple, ideas – the perfect antidote to the neo-romantic pap that so often passes for choral music today.

December 2016

Written for youth, the a cappella cycle “enigma I-VI” is likely to stretch any choir.

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