Erkki-Sven Tüür: Flux

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur is one of today's brightest lights, creating works that combine drama, mystery, and emotional directness within complex structures. His music is listener-friendly; its rhythmic life, deep textures, and compelling sound world reward repeated listenings. The Symphony No. 3 is in two movements, the first building from barely audible cymbal splashes to jazz-like plucked basses to scurrying strings and chaotic winds, rising to a shattering brass-led climax that gives way to delicate coloristic effects. Those first four minutes are typical of Tuur's music, pulsating with energy and unexpected blocks of sound. The Cello Concerto is just as fetching; Gergingas's lyrical soliloquizing blends nicely with the imaginative orchestration. Lighthouse, for strings, is a contemporary take on the baroque and makes a fine filler. Highly recommended. --Dan Davis

Tracks:

Symphony No.3: Contextus I
Symphony No.3: Contextus II
Concerto for Violoncello And Orchestra
Lighthouse For Strings

Amazon.com

Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur is one of today's brightest lights, creating works that combine drama, mystery, and emotional directness within complex structures. His music is listener-friendly; its rhythmic life, deep textures, and compelling sound world reward repeated listenings. The Symphony No. 3 is in two movements, the first building from barely audible cymbal splashes to jazz-like plucked basses to scurrying strings and chaotic winds, rising to a shattering brass-led climax that gives way to delicate coloristic effects. Those first four minutes are typical of Tuur's music, pulsating with energy and unexpected blocks of sound. The Cello Concerto is just as fetching; Gergingas's lyrical soliloquizing blends nicely with the imaginative orchestration. Lighthouse, for strings, is a contemporary take on the baroque and makes a fine filler. Highly recommended. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

Animated and liberated.......2000-04-12

Imagine a mad genius bent over a sequencer, cranking away wildly at the tempo and pitch controls - except in this case it isn't a sequencer, it's a string section! Erkki Sven Tuur sheds new light on the relevance of arpeggios and looped motifs in contemporary music and the effect is as invigorating as it can be unsettling. His music has both linear and harmonic density - a soup with a whole new flavour and texture....

Track Listings:

Track Listings

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild

Orange and Blue

DJ's Choice: Graduation 2004 Party Music

Under My Wings [Import]

West Side Story

The Tchaikovsky Collection, Vol. 4

The Greenhornes

Study In Scarlet [Box set]

To Jobim With Love

Sugar on Sunday [Import]

Te Amo

Made by Maceo

Hopeless Romantics