Manfred Eicher from
ECM is nominated for the 39th Grammy Award as the Classical
Producer of The Year for this and two other records.ECM NEW SERIES, ECM 1590, CD 449 459-2
Manfred Eicher from
ECM is nominated for the 39th Grammy Award as the Classical
Producer of The Year for this and two other records.
This is a handsomely produced, thought-provoking release. ECM may
be looking for a new Pärt, but Tüür is his own man. Anyone
wanting to hear up-to-the-minute new music that will not sear the
ears off his (or her) head could do little better than try this
new disc.
GRAMOPHONE - July 1996
Erkki-Sven Tüür, a 36-year-old composer who began as a
progressive rock musician. The five head-spinning works on his
album Crystallisatio (ECM New Series 78118-21590-2) include the
free-floating but firmly structured "Architectonics VI"
for flute, clarinet, vibraphone and strings, the slow-gathering
"Passion" for strings, the elegant deconstruction of a
baroque motif in "Illusion", and a fine-spun
"Requiem" choral mass that raises a Gregorian chant out
of medieval ooze and sets it loose in postmodern orbit with
frightening beauty. Wolfgang Sander's essay in the album notes
pinpoints the masterful, time-traveling quality of his brilliant
discovery: "Tüür's music sounds as if it had strolled
through the history of music assimilating theoretical inspiration
and practical experience along the way. Then it seems to have
wrapped itself up in a cocoon, immune to the outside world, there
to develop its own contours..." The superb musicians are the
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber
Choir, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste.
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER - July I, 1996 /Charles Michener/
Tüür's music has both the spiritual directness of the music of
former Soviet composers- Pärt, Kancheli or Gubaidulina, for
example - and the postmodern adventurouences of some of his
Finnish colleagues, such as Lindberg and Salonen.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE - June 1996 /Helen Wallace/
This record demonstrates his dazzling compositional skills to a
much greater extent, from the jigsaw construction of Illusion
(also of pop-single length with a trick ending - fantastic), to
the accomplished flute writing and interwoven electronics of the
title track, and the simple upwards momentum of Passion.
If Tüür is a credit to Estonian educators, so are the
performes: The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra with The Estonian
Philharmonic Chamber Choir conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste.
Perhaps he's just bloody good - exactly how good may take a
little more time to figure out.
THE WIRE / Great Britain - April 1996 /John Walters/
Wie die Werke in ihrem Zusammenspiel ausweisen - in der
kompetenten Interpretation des Tallinner Kammerorchesters und des
estnischen Philharmonischen Kammerchors -, ist es für Tüür nur
ein kurzer Weg von den Strukturen mittelalterlicher Motetten zur
Musik unserer Tage, minimalistischen patterns und oszillierenden
Klangflächen. Heute ist Tüür ein Enzyklopädiker. Womöglich
hat er das Zeug zum universellen Komponisten.
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG / Germany - May 28, 1996
/Andreas Obst/
Der Este Tüür (Jahrgang 1959) bedient sich bei seinen
Kompositionen Techniken von der Ars Nova des 14. Jahrhundert bis
zum Serialismus. Und doch erklingt kein postmoderner
An-Biedermeier, sondern faszinierende Musik, die ständig
Vertrautes mit Verstörendem kontrastiert.
STEREOPLAY / Germany - June 1996 /Lothar Brandt/
Estnisch hat Konjunktur. Modales, satte Klänge, greifende
Rhythmik. Wenn man alles so behandelt wie der hochbegabte
Erkki-Sven Tüür, wenn Verstörendes immer wieder
dazwischenfährt wie die zunächst kaum wahrnehmbaren
Sirenenklänge am still besinnlichen Beginn des Requiems, dann
steht eine neue, ganz persönliche Ausdruckswelt vor dem Hörer
überall ist diese Kraft zu spüren.
NEUE MUSIKZEITUNG / Germany - No. 2, 1996
Music, die vom ersten bis zum letzten Takt fosziniert; Musik
eines hier unbekannten estnischen Komponisten, Erkki-Sven Tüür,
die, wie viele der neuen Klänge aus dem baltischen Raum, zuerst
geistliche (andere würden sagen: poetische) Musik ist.
ST. GALLER TAGBLATT / Switzerland - April 29, 1996
Pour ee second disque consacré a Erkki- Sven Tüür (an premier
est paru chez Finlandia), ECM a choisi des interprétes estoniens
d'une qualité exemplaire af'in de donner le meilleur de cette
musique qui tient autant de l'Ars nova du XIV sicele que de la
technique spectrale récente.
LE MONDE DE LA MUSIQUE / France - May 1996 /Franck Mallet/
E' nata una nuova generazione di compositori colti, finalmente
non irretita da schemi e dogmi di forma o c'i ilnguaggio.
Ascoltate L'estone Erkki-Sven Tüür, che non si lascia
condizionare dal dilemmi soliti: tonale o atonale, minimale o
razionale, modale o seriale. Ma recupera tutto quello che gli
serve con una spregiudicatezza e, quel che plu conta, con una
emozionalita rare. Ha 36 anni l'ectettico Tüür, da giovane era
leader di una rockband che faceva uno strario rock, finche non ha
sentito il bisogno di studiare in conservatorio e di scrivere
musiche plu ambiziose e elaborate. Come quelle splendide e
struggenti di questo primo album per la ECM, che rischia di
essere il piu affascinante dai tempi di Tabula rasa di Arvo Pärt
(1984). Sono cinque le immaginose composizioni del debutto, tutte
di densa e subliminale tessitura strumentale, con un Requiem
finale per coro, soprano, tenore e archi. Le musiche di
Erkki-Sven Tüür sono mirabilmente eseguite dalla Tallinn
Chamber Orchestra e dall' Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
diretti da Tõnu Kaljuste.
LA REPUBBLICA / Italy - April 24, 1996 /Giacomo
Pellicciotti/
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