Kreek's Notebook
Spiritual Songs from the Baltic States
KORVITS Tonu (b1969)
The Choir of Royal Holloway - Rupert Gough (Dir)
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA67968
1 CD Spielzeit : 061:09
CHF 19.50
The main work on this fascinating album is based on Estonian folk hymns, an unusual variant of folk melodies, collected in the early twentieth century for the first time by Cyrillus Kreek, who was the Estonian equivalent of Bartók or Grainger. Most of these religious folk songs were originally eighteenth-century Lutheran hymns which have been passed across generations and embellished with elements of secular folk-singing.