Estonian composers, including but not just limited to her most famous composer, Arvo Pärt, have helped put Estonia on the map for music lovers in a way that does not extend to other, non-music-loving world citizens. MDG Gold's Estonia: Organ Landscape is a survey of pipe organs in a former Soviet Bloc nation for which access to the outside world remains a relatively new phenomenon. In many places once locked away behind the iron curtains, one would hope that organs of great antiquity and quality would be nestled away in ...
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Estonian composers, including but not just limited to her most famous composer, Arvo Pärt, have helped put Estonia on the map for music lovers in a way that does not extend to other, non-music-loving world citizens. MDG Gold's Estonia: Organ Landscape is a survey of pipe organs in a former Soviet Bloc nation for which access to the outside world remains a relatively new phenomenon. In many places once locked away behind the iron curtains, one would hope that organs of great antiquity and quality would be nestled away in some community church, ripe for rediscovery. In the case of Estonia, the antiquity part doesn't quite work out -- the oldest organs on this recording date from the early 1800s, slightly before the abolition of serfdom that eventually gave rise to the nationalistic spirit in then Tsarist Russian-dominated Estonia. The most recent organ dates from 1939, just before Estonia's annexation by Soviet Russia, the subsequent capture of Estonia by the Nazis, and their re-annexation by the Soviets...
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