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BERGMAN / KREEK / SIBELIUS / TORMIS
Baltic Runes
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier

[ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 May 2010

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"The most striking piece is Erik Bergman's "Lapponia", in which the use of wordless phonemes is aptly elemental, with deep lowing beneath scattered snow showers of excited syllables, and a breeze of haunting sussurus which recalls Ligeti." The Independent, 23rd April 2010 ****

Hybrid/SACD - playable on all CD players.

2010 Grammy Award Nomination - Best Choral Recording

"The most striking piece is Erik Bergman's "Lapponia", in which the use of wordless phonemes is aptly elemental, with deep lowing beneath scattered snow showers of excited syllables, and a breeze of haunting sussurus which recalls Ligeti." The Independent, 23rd April 2010 ****

Paul Hillier leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a programme tracing the Balto-Finnic folksong tradition through the works of Jean Sibelius, Cyrillus Kreek, Erik Bergman and Veljo Tormis.

Tracks:

Bergman, E:
Lapponia, Op. 76

Kreek:
Three Folksongs

Sibelius:
Rakastava, Op. 14

Tormis:
Laulusild
Piispa ja pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan)
Jaanilaulud