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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Heino Eller - Symphonic Poems (Olari Elts)


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Composer: Heino Eller
  • (01) Night Calls
  • (02) White Night
  • (09) Twilight
  • (10) Dawn

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts, conductor

Date: 2019
Label: Ondine
https://www.ondine.net/index.php?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=6339

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Review

Ondine’s traversal of orchestral music by Heino Eller (1887-1970), in the company of Olari Elts with the Estonian National Symphony and having already seen fine new accounts of the Second Symphony and Violin Concerto (1/19), continues with this disc of symphonic poems.

His most significant orchestral work other than the three symphonies, Night Calls (1921) is a striking composite of Impressionist elements with the symphonic poem as evolved by French and Russian figures (most notably Liadov). Eller unfolds a sonata-form design more through motifs than themes, hence more by expressive inference than systematic development, though there is no lack of formal cohesion over a piece that conjures a nocturnal atmosphere beset by storm and sundry ominous forces with undeniable potency but also great delicacy of gesture.

If the symphonic suite White Night (1939) is less arresting, this is perhaps because its eight movements – attractive and frequently evocative in themselves – fail to merge into a greater or more cumulative whole. Yet the third (‘Reminiscences’) and fifth (‘Fisherman’s Song’) are characteristic of Eller at his most imaginative, as too are those ‘White Night’ evocations framing this sequence. Ideal as encores or viable as an informal diptych, Twilight (1917) and Dawn (1918) are among Eller’s earliest orchestral pieces and affecting in their Nordic sensibility.

These latter items have long been familiar through Neeme Järvi’s Chandos recordings but the greater refinement of playing and sensitivity of Elts’s readings are their own justification. Certainly no one coming to this music afresh will be disappointed by what is on offer here.

-- Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Oct/Eller_poems_ODE13352.htm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eller-Estonian-National-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B07WV6H59J

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Heino Eller (7 March 1887 – 16 June 1970) was an Estonian composer and teacher. Eller was born in Tartu and studied violin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1907 and 1920. During his time as a professor (1920-40) at the Tartu Higher School for Music, Eller formed the Tartu school of composition, which gave rise to many composers, including Eduard Tubin. From 1940 to 1970 he was a professor of composition at the Tallinn Conservatory. As a composer, Eller's musical language contains many national traits, but he was also influenced by styles such as impressionism and expressionism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heino_Eller

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Olari Elts (born April 27, 1971 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian conductor. He was winner of the 1999 Jorma Panula Conducting Competition and the 2000 Sibelius Conductors’ Competition. Elts was the principal conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006. He is also the founder and director of the contemporary music ensemble NYYD Ensemble. His opera work includes appearances with the Estonian National Opera and the Rennes Opera House. Elts is the designated Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (starting 20/21 season).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olari_Elts
http://www.olarielts.com/

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