{"id":627,"date":"2011-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuvaja.ee\/projektid\/epcc_web\/?p=news317"},"modified":"2017-05-23T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:39:11","slug":"estonian-philharmonic-chamber-choir-cadogan-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epcc.ee\/en\/2011\/02\/estonian-philharmonic-chamber-choir-cadogan-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Cadogan Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><span class=\"itemimagecaption\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir: Compelling champions of their national music<\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><!-- Item introtext -->We are spoiled for choral choice in Britain. With the likes of The Sixteen, The King&rsquo;s Singers, Polyphony and I Fagiolini just the start of the roster of talent, and an amateur choral scene of serious heft, the temptation is to look no further than the Channel for our choral kicks. Such is the growing presence of the Baltic nations however (and particularly Estonia, with its greatest musical champion, Arvo P&auml;rt), that this rival tradition is increasingly making its presence felt. Greatest among a nation of choirs is unquestionably the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, who last night took us on a tour of their musical heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Item fulltext --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">In a programme otherwise dedicated to music from Estonia and Finland, Mendelssohn&rsquo;s posthumously published Three Psalms Op 78 for double choir seemed an odd choice to open &ndash; not least because the episodic idiom saw the ensemble less than at ease. Shifting freely among styles, with elements from German folk and church traditions, as well as echoes of more archaic polyphonic writing, there seemed little basis here for dialogue with the spacious, contemporary consonance of the Baltic repertoire.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #4f81bd;\">&#8216;Ambassadors for arguably the most exciting choral tradition currently emerging from Europe, the EPCC are an impressive force&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">With a clarity to their forward diction that risked impeding Mendelssohn&rsquo;s lines, the ensemble articulated each episode crisply enough, but left the transitions rather exposed. The effect of rather disjointed narrative was heightened further by the solo voices that pass in and out of the texture, and which refused to settle. While the massed choral sound was impressively anchored, neither solo soprano nor tenor matched it for focus, with some bizarrely bulging phrasing from the tenor in particular marring the solo\/choral exchanges of Psalm 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">With the expressive homophony of Sibelius&rsquo;s<em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"> Rakastava<\/span><\/em> (more familiar in its string transcription), we were listening to a new ensemble. The blend which is at the core of the EPCC&rsquo;s sound became all-important &ndash; the platform on which Sibelius&rsquo;s more colourful descriptive effects could rest securely. A sort of miniature folk cantata, <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Rakastava<\/span><\/em> is inflected with charming modal and textural touches. Passing the melodic conch to the men, Sibelius embroiders their storytelling with a repeated refrain &ldquo;ei-laa&rdquo; in the women&rsquo;s voices, multiple melodic cells circling insistently, held in impeccable balance by director Daniel Reuss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">With the music of Arvo P&auml;rt so much a part of our own choral repertoire now, hearing it performed by an Estonian group took on something of an anthropological fascination. Offering two different examples &ndash; the rapt simplicity of his <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Magnificat<\/span><\/em> and the more weighty orthodoxy of sections from the <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Kanon pokajanen<\/span><\/em> (<em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Canon of Repentance<\/span><\/em>) &ndash; it was the latter that really made sense of the particular tone quality of the ensemble, for whom the work was written. Showcasing the gloriously thick, filled-out sound in the extended lines and sustained triadic hum of harmony, the work&rsquo;s anti-drama was minutely calibrated by Reuss, sustaining the single emotional trajectory that (in the full work) must endure for over 80 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">For my money, however, the most exciting Estonian works of the evening came from Cyrillus Kreek. Draping his national sound around a skeleton of Western art music, his four <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Psalms of David<\/span><\/em> move through distinctly Russian-influenced shades for Psalm 22 (all parallel octaves and intense homophony), rather more French-style swooning and cluster chords for Psalm 104, before shifting to a more vernacular folk idiom for <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Onnis on inimene<\/span><\/em> and concluding with the suspension-laden majesty of Psalm 141. His folk-song settings showed similar textural flexibility, though connected by a rather more coherent stylistic framework. At their best in thick homophony, the EPCC made a compelling case for Estonia&rsquo;s &ldquo;other&rdquo; great composer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">There is no doubt of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir&rsquo;s quality, nor of their differences to an English equivalent ensemble. Favouring a rooted, collective texture, it was the counterpoint of the Mendelssohn that perhaps exposed their weakness, a tendency to prioritise blend over all other concerns. Last night was not, I suspect, this choir at their very best, but as ambassadors for arguably the most exciting choral tradition currently emerging from Europe the EPCC are still an impressive force.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir: Compelling champions of their national music We are spoiled for choral choice in Britain. 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