{"id":646,"date":"2011-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuvaja.ee\/projektid\/epcc_web\/?p=news336"},"modified":"2017-05-23T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:39:09","slug":"leading-a-not-so-merry-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epcc.ee\/en\/2011\/11\/leading-a-not-so-merry-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading a not-so-merry dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Roderic Dunnett visits Estonia to witness the world premi&egrave;re of a remarkable musical work by the English composer Gregory Rose<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">TALLINN, the capital of Estonia, is one of the most beautifully preserved old towns in Europe. Despite being occupied by the Nazis, and half-razed by Russian bombardment, it is an oasis of artistic endeavour. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Its opera, ballet, choral tradition, historic palaces, and museums must rank among the best in Europe &mdash; and best-kept. Peter the Great built a Queen Anne-like summer palace for his consort in the leafy suburb of Kadriorg. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">So, Tallinn had cultural capital, even before it received its honorific title as European Capital of Culture 2011, alongside Turku, the former capital of neighbouring Finland. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Ranked among its finest art treasures is the collection of religious paintings, housed in the Niguliste, or St Nicholas&rsquo;s, one of the Old Town&rsquo;s many imposing and beautiful ecclesi&shy;astical buildings. Now decommis&shy;sioned &mdash; and all but rebuilt from scratch under the Soviets, whose 1944 onslaught destroyed it &mdash; it is used as a concert hall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Amid the welter of musical endeavour (the British composers James MacMillan and Roxanna Panufnik were among those featured in &ldquo;Tallinn 2011 &mdash; European Capital of Culture&rdquo;, and several British en&shy;sembles have also participated), arguably the best was saved up until near the end. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Late last month, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) &mdash; founded by T&otilde;nu Kaljuste, and recognised as one of the best professional choirs in the world &mdash; gave the world premi&egrave;re in the Niguliste of Surmatants (Dance of Death) by Gregory Rose: a sacred work of great dramatic intensity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">SURMATANTS is the title of a magnificent artwork in the Niguliste &mdash; a polyptych, by the north-German painter Bernt Notke (c.1435-1508\/9). A contemporary of Cranach and Gr&uuml;newald, Notke was admired &mdash; and imitated &mdash; by Holbein. The painting depicts a skeletal death-figure (in effect, seven death-figures; originally, there were more), taunting and chillingly claiming the souls of those in authority, from royalty to ecclesiastics and the Pope himself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Several sections of the painting are lost: burghers and aldermen were not, it seems, exempt. And, in the last scene of the original, Death even dares approach a child &mdash; only to hold back at the last moment. Thus, to the artist&rsquo;s eye, infancy remained, mercifully, untouched. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The brilliance of Rose&rsquo;s music lies in the way it fuses the approachable with the ultra-modern and challen-ging. The middle son of the great Oxford choir-trainer Dr Bernard Rose, Gregory was, like his father, a boy chorister at Salisbury Cathedral. Rose senior was one of the most famous treble soloists in England, and HMV&rsquo;s far younger reserve for Master Ernest Lough&rsquo;s celebrated 1927 record&shy;ing of the solo in Mendelssohn&rsquo;s anthem &ldquo;Hear my prayer&rdquo;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">Steeped in the English choral tradition (Rose also sang in his father&rsquo;s choir at Magdalen College, Oxford), he then studied in Vienna with a pupil of Schoenberg, founded the choir Singcircle, and made one of Hyperion&rsquo;s best-selling recordings: Stimmung, by Stockhausen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">So, one might have expected some avant-garde fireworks here, too. Yet, amid a substantial secular output, Rose has also composed anthems and evening services &mdash; not least for St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral, where his son was a chorister &mdash; and a clutch of Masses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">THESE, perhaps were a training for Surmatants; for, as if to offset the gory goings-on on an upper stage, as skull-disporting Death (the splendid bari&shy;tone Rainer Vilu, of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir) claims his noble victims, one by one, the choir, in a moving and riveting performance amid sinister down&shy;turned lights, sings the entire text of the Missa pro defunctis, or requiem mass. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">These two elements are beautifully contrasted and imaginitively inter&shy;spersed: none of this meticulously plotted, 28-section score (the number seven plays an important part, Rose points out) felt gratuituous or ir&shy;relevant. The two strands, death-ditties and requiem, mesh together brilliantly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">But there are yet other contrasting features. Rose has introduced a dance element, albeit an audial one. Sur&shy;matants, as its Estonian title suggests (tants means &ldquo;dance&rdquo;), is a work that initially suggested to Rose some balletic content. For various practical reasons, these Tallinn performances focused on simple costuming rather than elaborate attire, and the charac&shy;ters&rsquo; stylised gestures, to a degree, mirrored those in the painting, lend&shy;ing the work the feel of a medieval mystery play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">An element of back-projection, again using the richly clad Notke originals, was also mooted, but no action was taken. Yet all this was arguably for the better: the formalised approach allowed Rose&rsquo;s score and the actor-singers&rsquo; individual anguish to speak even more eloquently. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">He includes seven orchestral dances: five, vibrant in character and orchestration; two, sombre yet ex&shy;pressive, enraptured and almost other-worldly. These last feature a sum&shy;moning drumbeat, and an elec&shy;trify&shy;ing violin solo (with, I thought, the searing and slightly lugubrious timbres of a viola) which form a processional and recessional (an idea found in Britten&rsquo;s Church Parables). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">All were played by a prodigiously gifted chamber ensemble: a 14-player group brought together for the occasion, and conducted by the composer. The team&rsquo;s make-up recalls similar groupings deployed by Stra&shy;vinsky, the Hungarian modernist Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti, or Sir Peter Maxwell Davies&rsquo;s group the Fires of London &mdash; all freely acknowledged as strong influences on Rose&rsquo;s new work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">PERHAPS the most intriguing in&shy;gredient of Dance of Death is the texts. Rose first conducted in Tallinn almost two decades ago, just a year after the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union. On one of many subsequent visits, Rose was bowled over by the Niguliste. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;I just loved it from the moment I saw it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I loved the spacious&shy;ness of it. It has a tangible atmos&shy;phere, and quite a large, or spacious, acoustic.&rdquo; The latter was particularly evident during the three perform&shy;ances of Surmatants. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The new work originally came about in this way: &ldquo;When I was conducting the chamber choir in 2006,&rdquo; Rose said, &ldquo;I was invited by T&otilde;nu Kaljuste, then their director, to a rehearsal they were doing of music by Arvo P&auml;rt next day in the Niguliste. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;I went early, and, although I&rsquo;d seen Notke&rsquo;s painting several times before, I found myself absorbed by the words on them. So I asked Tarmo Saaret, the director of the Niguliste art museum: &lsquo;Have you got copies of the words?&rsquo; Tarmo said &lsquo;Yes, we&rsquo;ve got them in many languages: which do you want?&rsquo; I requested German, Es&shy;tonian, and English. As soon as I read those medieval scripts through, I thought they were brilliant, and highly dra&shy;matic. They evoke Death ad&shy;dressing in sequence, and then seizing or claiming, various charac&shy;ters in posi&shy;tions of authority. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;I took the texts back to my hotel; and next morning I spoke to Anneli Unt, the former General Director of the EPCC, and told her I was so amazed by these ominous words depicted in the painting, that I&rsquo;d like one day to write some sort of cantata, based on them &mdash; to which Anneli replied: &lsquo;Yes, and we&rsquo;ll be the first to perform it!&rsquo;&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">IN NOTKE&rsquo;s collective portrait, not just the grotesque figures, but a scroll of words sprawls horizontally across the painting. The writing is in Gothic script; the text is written in medieval German. &ldquo;It probably dates back further&rdquo;, Rose said, &ldquo;to medieval France, where the idea of the Danse de Mort took hold around 1400 at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;Whether Bernt Notke was reli&shy;gious himself I can&rsquo;t say &mdash; I would be speculating. The painting could be religious, or maybe not. But in both the text and the individual painted tableaux, Death is quite strong. He&rsquo;s clearly saying &lsquo;I am more important than you mere mortals, who last for but a day.&rsquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;So, whether at the end you get a Christian rather than a humanist message, I&rsquo;m equally unsure. How&shy;ever, by introducing the requiem, I try to give it that &mdash; I put it in to endow the musical, or music-theatre, work with a Christian feeling, to suggest that there are ways to subsume death. The requiem enables the work to end with calm, even optimism. &lsquo;Dona nobis pacem&rsquo; is a way of calming a very hyperactive Death down by the end. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;Extraordinarily, one night I actually dreamed this Dance of Death: I visualised a whole music-theatre piece based on Notke&rsquo;s Surmatants painting, complete with the indi&shy;vidual characters, with dance and masks, etc. It was extraordinarily vivid, and I know that it gave massive impetus to my deciding to compose the work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;I love the way Death says things like: &lsquo;Well, Mr Pope, you&rsquo;re the highest now, but even you must follow me: Her pawes du byst hogest nu Dantse wy voer ik v&ntilde; du;&rsquo; or chides the Emperor&rsquo;s &lsquo;haughtiness&rsquo;, and berates the King with ignoring the lowly poor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;Yet, in the musical work, the dramatic way he claims people&rsquo;s souls, pushing them down the steps after addressing and berating them, is rather ghoulish and quite sinister. You can actually sense their terror. Com&shy;pare the Empress, sung here by the splendid Kaia Urb: &lsquo;I know that Death means me! I have never before known terror so great!&rsquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&ldquo;They&rsquo;re all pretty frightened &mdash; cowardly, even: who wouldn&rsquo;t be? But the intention of my approach, incorporating the requiem mass, is to work towards a kind of reconciliation &mdash; to lay to rest, with a feeling of hope, all those who have died.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">CERTAINLY, &ldquo;In paradisum deducant te Angeli,&rdquo; (&ldquo;When angels lead you into paradise&rdquo;) or &ldquo;Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere &aelig;ternam habeas requiem&rdquo; (&ldquo;And with Lazarus once poor may you have eternal rest&rdquo;), and the exquisite Pie Jesu (&ldquo;Dona eis requiem sempiternam&rdquo;: &ldquo;Grant them eternal rest&rdquo;), which Rose places last, are among the most beautifully reassuring texts in the whole Christian canon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">It must be daunting to tread in the footsteps of Durufl&eacute;, Faur&eacute;, Mozart, Victoria, Verdi, and others. But Rose, who enjoys wide acclaim as a teacher (at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich), and as a conductor (Europe-wide, and es&shy;pecially in the former Communist countries), has never been afraid to confront a challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The fact that Surmatants is seen in Tallinn, by the EPCC performers and audiences alike, as one of this choir&rsquo;s most significant achievements to date, is a measure of the quality, depth, and sense of the numinous with which Rose &mdash; a committed Christian since his chorister days &mdash; has endowed this immensely satis&shy;fying 70-minute piece. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The most famous composer to come from Estonia, Arvo P&auml;rt, was there to greet and hug Rose at the premi&egrave;re &mdash; as high an accolade as one could hope for. Rose has evoked from Notke&rsquo;s Dance of Death story an absorbing musical masterpiece &mdash; one that illum&shy;inates the country&rsquo;s na&shy;tional icon rather than detracts from it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The EPCC has tentative plans to take Dance of Death on tour to a number of cities and festivals around Europe. By the time it is revived in Estonia, a high-level dance element (conceivably from Thomas Edur&rsquo;s Estonian National Ballet) could have been introduced. The fact that such serious discussions are under way is a fitting measure of the strength and cogency of Rose&rsquo;s &mdash; and this breathtaking choir&rsquo;s &mdash; remark&shy;able achievement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roderic Dunnett visits Estonia to witness the world premi&egrave;re of a remarkable musical work by the English composer Gregory Rose &nbsp; TALLINN, the capital of Estonia, is one of the most beautifully preserved old towns in Europe. Despite being occupied by the Nazis, and half-razed by Russian bombardment, it is an oasis of artistic endeavour. 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