Erkki-Sven Tüür
Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer, born in 1959 in Kärdla on the island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion in Tallinn, then composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera. In 1979 he founded the rock group In Spe, which he later left to devote himself to concert music. His symphonies, concertos and choral works mix tonal and atonal writing. Tüür's early pieces combined Gregorian chant, minimalism, rock and twelve-tone techniques; he later developed a vector-based method of composition, first used in Oxymoron.
Aeris
Aeris is the ninth ECM New Series album to feature the vibrant and highly expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür. Olari Elts, a long-time champion of Tüür’s compositions, conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in compelling, intensely-focused performances of Phantasma, De Profundis and Tüür’s tenth symphony ÆRIS, a vast drama of shifting energies and interactions, which is scored for horn quartet and orchestra. The symphony is in four movements that transition seamlessly. Tüür: “Each mov…
Lost Prayers
Chamber music by Erkki-Sven Tüür: two piano trios, a violin-cello duo and the String Quartet No. 2, played by Harry Traksmann, Leho Karin, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff and the Signum Quartett. Recorded April 2019, Sendesaal Bremen.
Carlo Gesualdo, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Brett Dean, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
GesualdoMusic by Carlo Gesualdo alongside Brett Dean's Carlo and Erkki-Sven Tüür's L'ombra della croce and Psalmody, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded in Tallinn in February 2014.
Seventh Symphony, Piano Concerto
Erkki-Sven Tüür's Piano Concerto (2006), with soloist Laura Mikkola, and Seventh Symphony 'Pietas' (2009), with the NDR Choir, played by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, recorded in Frankfurt in June 2009 and June 2010.
Strata
Erkki-Sven Tüür's Symphony No. 6 'Strata' (2007) and Noēsis, concerto for clarinet, violin and orchestra (2005), with Jörg and Carolin Widmann, the Nordic Symphony Orchestra and Anu Tali; recorded at the Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn, in 2007 and 2009.
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Pedro Carneiro, Leho Karin, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts
OxymoronFour works by Erkki-Sven Tüür (1990-2005): Salve Regina, the marimba concerto Ardor with Pedro Carneiro, Dedication and Oxymoron, with Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Olari Elts. Recorded in Tallinn, 2003 and 2006.