Veljo Tormis, probably Estonia's best-known composer after Arvo Pärt, has devoted the bulk of his energies to choral music, with a catalog of over 500 choral works. He is a real maverick; his primal-sounding pieces can't be easily traced to any previous compositional school or tradition. He often takes Estonian folk song or folk-like material and transforms it into distinctive, powerfully evocative music, usually driven by rhythmic propulsiveness. He uses extended vocal techniques -- shouting, whistling, chanting, ...
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Veljo Tormis, probably Estonia's best-known composer after Arvo Pärt, has devoted the bulk of his energies to choral music, with a catalog of over 500 choral works. He is a real maverick; his primal-sounding pieces can't be easily traced to any previous compositional school or tradition. He often takes Estonian folk song or folk-like material and transforms it into distinctive, powerfully evocative music, usually driven by rhythmic propulsiveness. He uses extended vocal techniques -- shouting, whistling, chanting, whispering, glissandi, throat singing -- in ways that make them sound not modern and innovative but visceral, organic expressions of feelings too primitive and raw to be conveyed through traditional singing. Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron) is probably Tormis' most frequently performed piece outside Estonia, and it's easy to see why; it's starkly dramatic with a profound monumentality that evokes the enactment of an ancient shamanic ritual, and it has memorable rhythmic drive. Many of the...
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