Search Login Login. Release date: Play Sample. About Tracks Press Reactions Background. Each of the symphonies, as the great Estonian composer has noted, is a world unto itself. Forty-five years separate his Symphony No. Symphony No. To those who only know the later works, these early scores will seem to inhabit a different musical world altogether. Kaljuste and his orchestra are just as convincing when placidly unwrapping those bundles of archaic-sounding melody, as he is confronting the angularities and contrapuntal clashes of the earlier works.
It is the Symphony No. At half an hour, it is the longest of the four and holds its rapt spell from beginning to end. There have been good recordings of all these symphonies before, especially No. Schon allein deshalb ist dieses Album sehr zu empfehlen. Der Dirigent Tonu Kaljuste agiert als ein ausgesprochener Spezialist dieses Meisters, er nimmt die Musik energisch in die Hand ohne ihr dabei das empfindsame, kristalline Innenleben zu zerbrechen. It creates an instantly recognizable sound-world, luminous, tranquil, but with an admixture of something sweetly sharp.
He makes dissonance seem innocent. This disc shows what a mistake that is. The performances here are uniformly outstanding. Symphonie von an. Eine 4.
Das Breslauer Orchester kann sich mit jeder Konkurrenz messen. Kaljuste arbeitet die Bewegungsimpulse und weitere Details heraus, so dass eine ausgefeilte Interpretation entstanden ist. Together, they constitute a fascinating tour through his compositional trajectory over a period of 45 years. The performances are complemented by a magnificent recording: crips and precise, spacious and resonant.
Tonu Kaljuste draws strong performances from the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, and the orchestra moves brilliantly from the twelve-tone complexity of the early music to the deceptive simplicity of the later. Robert Levine, Stereophile Recording of the Month.
