Tõnu Kõrvits: Moorland Elegies

• Tõnu Kõrvits – Moorland Elegies (2015)

Come, Walk With Me

Silent in the House

The Night is Darkening Round Me

Fall, Leaves, Fall

She Dried Her Tears

Moolight, Summer Moonlight

The Sun Has Set

The Starry Night Shall Tidings Bring

Month After Month

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

conductor RISTO JOOST

Moorland Elegies (2015), a nine-part cycle for mixed choir and string orchestra, is a crowning achievement of its composer Tõnu Kõrvits’s magical impressionism. The work was premiered by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra at Tallinn’s St. John’s Church on 31 October 2015, conducted by Risto Joost. The cycle is shaped and animated by its texts: a selection of poems by the English author Emily Brontë (1818–1848. The selection of poetry in Moorland Elegies contains bright, sorrowful, dramatic, and divine scenes that form no coherent plot. There are only spiritual conditions characterized by a certain poetical abstraction, which develop through natural imagery and spatial impressions.

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