Easter Songs is Richard Harvey’s fourth CD of choral music, a startlingly original EP of three bold new settings of poems for Holy Week.
Three new choral works I See His Blood, Am I A Stone? and Easter, written on the Easter theme continue composer Richard Harvey’s creative collaboration with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Swiss conductor Jérôme Kuhn. The texts are by Welsh/English poet and priest George Herbert (1593–1633), the Pre-Raphaelite Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) and the Irish republican ...
Veljo Tormis “Küsimus on…” (1981) Text: Olaf Utt
Performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste
Recorded 05.05.1988 in Estonian Radio.
Photo by Tõnu Tormis