Helena Tulve: Lijnen cover

Helena Tulve: Lijnen

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Helena Tulve represents a new generation of Estonian composers whose approach to sound is intimately honed. Like her mentor, Erkki Sven-Tüür, she treats large-scale configurations as chamber ensembles and vice versa. Among the album’s many standouts are the 2003 title composition, featuring the voice of Arianna Savall, and 1997’s Öö for saxophone quartet. The artful grammar of the Silesian String Quartet in 2004’s nec ros, nec pluvia… leaves us with more questions than answers, and that’s as it should be. This isn’t music to get lost in but music that gets lost in you.

Tyran Grillo

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