Records available
CD canto:). Hortus Musicus
DVD In the Mystical Land of Kaydara. Peeter Vähi
DVD Coppélia. A ballet by Léo Delibes
CD-series Great Maestros. Beethoven, Brahms. Kalle Randalu, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
CD Quarter of a Century with Friends. Arsis, Rémi Boucher, Oliver Kuusik, Rauno Elp
Super Audio CD Maria Magdalena. Sevara Nazarkhan, Riga Dom Cathedral Boys Choir, State Choir Latvija, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
LP Contra aut pro? Toomas Velmet, Neeme Järvi, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Pärt
PEETER VÄHI
TO HIS HIGHNESS SALVADOR D
An exciting dialogue between music and surrealistic art. “... produced a language reminiscent of European minimalism, unusually gentle in contour.” (Gramophone, 5/1995)
1–3 | To His Highness Salvador D | 11:08 |
4 | Mystical Uniting | 8:36 |
5 | Digital Love | 8:30 |
6–8 | Concerto Piccolo | 13:13 |
9–12 | Four Engravings of Reval | 8:46 |
Performed by:
Camerata Tallinn: Jaan Õun − flute, Ulrika Kristjan − violin, Heiki Mätlik − guitar (#1−5), Early Music Consort Hortus Musicus (#6−12), Ivo Sillamaa − harpsichord (#6−8), Andres Mustonen − conductor (#6−8)
Music composed by Peeter Vähi
Recorded at the Tallinn City Hall (Matrix Audio Studio) and Estonia Concert Hall in 1993 and 1996
Engineered by Priit Kuulberg & Jüri Tamm
Cover artwork: “Geopoliticus Child” by Salvador Dalí
Liner notes translated by Christian Hinzelin and ASAP Milano
Andres Mustonen’s (b 1953) discovery of music has followed a very unusual path. His adolescent fascination with contemporary music made an about-face in the early 1970s towards early and Christian music. In 1972 it led to founding the early music consort Hortus Musicus, which gives vital performances even today. Since the founding of the ensemble, Hortus Musicus and Andres Mustonen have been performing constantly on the world’s concert stages and at music festivals: the Utrecht Festival, the Malmö Baroque, concerts in Prague, St Petersburg and Moscow, performances at the Mozart-Fest in Chemnitz, the Jaffa Festival in Israel, the Lufthansa Baroque Festival in London, the Scottish Early Music Festival in Glasgow, the Lockenhaus Festival in Austria, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Glasperlenspiel Festival.
In these years Andres Mustonen and Hortus Musicus have succeeded in storing their work on 25 records.
Andres Mustonen is partly a solo violinist, but mostly a conductor, whereas the latter post has been developed via a career of a performing artist and musician. Mustonen conducts the leading orchestras of Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Latvia and Lithuania, the Great Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, the Russian National Academic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Musica Viva Academic Chamber Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunken, the Helsinki City Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, etc. During many years, Andres Mustonen has worked together with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tallinn Sinfonietta and with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.
Mustonen has gone through and performed the music history both as a performer and a conductor. He transfers his musical experience of history to performances of classical, romantic and new music. This is but not the new music that infatuated young Mustonen in the early 1960s, when his interest lay in the avant-garde and the happening. It is the harmonic new music created by გია ყანჩელი (Giya Kancheli), Philip Glass, 武満 徹 (Takemitsu Tōru), Владимир Мартынов (Vladimir Martynov), Ավետ Տերտերյան (Avet Terterian), and Валентин Сильвестров (Valentin Silvestrov). Several composers have dedicated their work to him. Mustonen is in close creative contact with many Estonian composers − Erkki-Sven Tüür, Peeter Vähi, Arvo Pärt, and Galina Grigorieva − also giving premières of their new works.
Making music, Mustonen can be characterised by spontaneity, improvisation and radiant performance. “For me an orchestra is not a static form but a living organisation of musicians, one whose members enhance and affect each other.”
Mustonen’s repertoire includes pieces of early music as well as of new music, which he often premières. He places a special significance on religious oratoric masterpieces from Baroque to the modern day: Bach, Mozart, Bruckner, Penderecki, Tavener, Knaifel.
In time, Andres Mustonen has developed a wide circle of musician friends with whom he makes music: Natalia Gutman, Aleksei Ljubimov, Michel Lethiec, Inesa Galante, Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Ramon Jaffe, Francois Leleux, Marcel Peres, Yoshiko Arai, Pascal Gallois, Seppo Kimanen, Vasili Pantir. “I never share the stage with someone I don’t know, don’t consider my friend, or don’t love.”
Published by Edition 49, Germany (# 1−5) and Eres Edition, Germany (# 9−12)
Stereo
Antes Edition / Classics
1997 Bella Musica Audio-VideoProduction
BM CD 31.9086
Photos: P Vähi, edited by Kikxsuk
To His Highness Salvador D, mov I, fragm, 133 sec, mp3
Mystical Uniting, fragm, 162 sec, mp3
Concerto piccolo, fragm, 2 min 26 sec, mp3
Rating at − the biggest database of audio recording: 5 / 5
Distribution in Estonia by Edition 49, phone +372 50 82223,
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See other records of Peeter Vähi: Maria Magdalena, A Chant of Bamboo, Supreme Silence, 2000 Years after the Birth of Christ, Tamula Fire Collage, The Path to the Heart of Asia, Handbell Symphony, Sounds of the Silver Moon
Other recordings of Hortus Musicus: Early Music of 3rd Millennium, Gregorianische Choräle – Plainchants, Maypole, 1200-1600 Medieval-Renaissance, Vuestros Amores He Señora, Telemann. Quartets, 2000 Years After The Birth Of Christ, To His Highness Salvador D, Jerusalem, Ave ..., canto:)