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The elemental power of ancient folk music was the life force that drove the compositions of Veljo Tormis (1930-2017). As the great Estonian composer famously said, “I do not use folk song. It is folk song that uses me.” This sentiment is echoed in definitive performances by the Estonian Philharmonic Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tõnu Kaljuste, for decades one of Tormis’s closest musical associates. Four orchestral cycles celebrate the changing seasons: Autumn Landscapes, Winter Patterns, Spring Sketches, Summer Motifs. And three pieces – Worry Breaks The Spirit, Hamlet’s Songs and Herding Calls - feature new arrangements by Tõnu Kaljuste, continuing and commemorating Tormis’s work.

Track Listing:

1 The Tower Bell in My Village

2 Worry Breaks the Spirit

3 Melancholy Songs - I. The Singer's Childhood

4 II. Maidens' Sorrow

5 III. Orphan's Lament

6 Reminiscentia - Autumn Landscapes - I. It is Late Summer

7 II. Clouds Racing Across the Sky

8 III. Pale Light

9 IV. Painfully Red Leaves

10 V. Wind Along the Heath

11 VI. Cold Autumn Night

12 VII. Sad Purple Heather

13 Reminiscentia - Winter Patterns - I. Winter Morning

14 II. Cold

15 III. Blizzard

16 IV. Northern Lights

17 Reminiscentia - Spring Sketches - I. Spring Wind

18 II. Buds Leafing Out

19 III. Evening Sky

20 IV. Under the Bird Cherry Tree

21 V. Yellow Flame

22 VI. In Late Spring

23 Reminiscentia - Summer Motifs - I. Dry Weather

24 II. Thunderstorm

25 III. Summer Night

26 Reminiscentia - Three I Had These Words of Beauty

27 Hamlet's Songs I

28 Herding Calls - Childhood Memories

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