Various Composers - Music from Estonia (Neeme Järvi)

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CD1:

• (01) Rudolf Tobias - Julius Caesar
• (02) Artur Lemba - Symphony in C sharp minor
• (06) Heino Eller - Videvik
• (07) Heino Eller - Koit
• (08) Heino Eller - Elegia

CD2:

• (01) Kaljo Raid - Symphony No. 1 in C minor
• (04) Heino Eller - Five Pieces
• (09) Veljo Tormis - Overture No. 2
• (10) Arvo Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Neeme Järvi, conductor

Date: 1987 (Vol. 1), 1989 (Vol. 2)

Compilation: 2005

Label: Chandos

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%20241-26

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Review

This 2005 double-disc compilation of Estonian orchestral music, splendidly performed by Neeme Järvi and the Scottish National Orchestra, is a chronological survey that outlines the development of a national musical identity that only gradually became free of external influences. The Julius Caesar Overture (1896) by Rudolf Tobias, the Symphony in C sharp minor (1908) by Artur Lemba, and Heino Eller's Videvik (1917), Koit (1918), and Elegia (1931) show the slow but steady progression from slavish imitation of the Russian Romantics -- particularly Tchaikovsky -- to a fairly cosmopolitan modernism, attuned to French music of the fin de siècle and Stravinsky's neo-Classicism. The Symphony No. 1 (1944) by Kaljo Raid, Eller's Five Pieces (1953), Veljo Tormis' Overture No. 2 (1959), and Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977) show the rapid assimilation of twentieth century idioms and influences, but with them a growing sense of cultural and artistic independence, tied less to Soviet and European models and more to Estonian folk and religious traditions. These 1987 and 1989 performances are all solid, as might be expected from the committed Järvi and the SNO in fine form, and Chandos has remastered the original recordings to improve clarity and depth.

-- Blair Sanderson, AllMusic

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Neeme Järvi (born June 7, 1937 in Tallinn) is an Estonian conductor. He studied at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others. Järvi was Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Gothenburg Symphony (1982-2004), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1984-1988), Detroit Symphony Orchestra (1990-2005) and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (2012-2015), among others. He made over 400 recordings for labels such as BIS, Chandos and Deutsche Grammophon and best known for his interpretations of Romantic and 20th century classical music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeme_Järvi

http://www.neemejarvi.ee/

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