Estonia in Focus weekend: New Estonian Choral Music; Tõnu Kõrvits – Moorland Elegies; Galina Grigorjeva – Nature Morte

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Chris L

Much to explore here; most tempting for me right now is the all-Kõrvits album, given that I live a stone’s throw from “Brontë Country”. That said…I know one shouldn’t be too literal-minded when it comes to cover art, but I’ve been up on the moors round here innumerable times and never seen them looking like that…!

[…] You and I – in terms of both subject and character – is I Am a River, her 2009 choral work that i wrote about last year. Both are concerned with expressions of love, but in comparison with the earlier work, You and I is […]

[…] melancholia to render it mildly askew. It brings to mind his 2015 work Moorland Elegies (reviewed here) which used a similar approach to explore the poetry of Emily Brontë. More melancholic, and more […]

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