Description
Title: Mihkel Kerem: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2
Artist: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113447760
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2026-03-06
Number of Discs: 1
The Estonian composer Mihkel Kerem – born in Tallinn in 1981 and Joint Assistant Leader in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015 – used the Covid lockdown to produce no fewer than four symphonies, two of them, his Seventh and Eighth, conceived as a contrasting pair. Kerem’s dark and ominous Seventh Symphony, like that of Sibelius, plots a huge sonata-form arch, growing from and back into it’s opening material. It’s soundworld sits somewhere between Sibelius and Schnittke, combining a sense of natural symphonic growth with dramatic twists of kaleidoscopic textural variety. No. 8, which also nods to Sibelius’ Seventh by quoting it’s celebrated trombone theme, is a vast, unhurried accelerando, it’s three linked movements tapping into the Nordic-Baltic tradition of using the controlled power of the orchestra to suggest the vastness of nature.
Tracks:
1.1 Symphony No. 7
1.2 Symphony No. 8~I. Mesto
1.3 Symphony No. 8~II. Comodo
1.4 Symphony No. 8~III. Volante
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