René Eespere

René Eespere was born on Dec 14th, 1953 in Tallinn. He graduated 1977 from Estonian Academy of Music as a composition student of Anatoli Garshnek, and 1977–79 advanced his studies as a postgraduate student in Moscow Conservatory under Aram Khachaturian and Aleksey Nikolayev.
Since 1979 René Eespere is a teacher of composition and music theory at the Estonian Academy of Music, since 2002 a professor. Since 1978 he is a member of the Estonian Composers’ Union.

René Eespere became publicly known first by his allegorical short ballets A Man And A Night, The Furies, and Ancient Dwellers that were all staged in the 1970s at the Vanemuine Theatre (Tartu). Of his extensive creation, oratorial works as well as sincere music for children and chamber music of subtle texture have gained the widest acclaim. Since the end of the 1970s tonal mode treatment, ostinato technique and elaborate use of variation have pervaded his idiom, suggesting influences of ancient ritual music, minimalism and Baroque. The dramatic art of his extensive works is characterized by a power of suggestion typical of a ritual.
During the 1980s René Eespere wrote a number of oratorial with an ethical and existential message (Passiones, Mysterium, Mediterium). Simultaneously with that he brought fresh air to the scene of Estonian children’s music with instrumentally accompanied songs and song cycles that were characterized by bright emotions and clear idiom. Two Jubilations, written in 1986, still remains a starting piece for a sequence of choral works with Latin titles (Glorificatio, Invocatio, Sub specie quietatis, De amore aeterno, Festina lente, Ritus, Origo originum, ao), followed by cantatas Mater rosae, Glorificatio and oratorio Passiones.
The list of commissioners and first performers of Eespere’s works includes the Jutland Chamber Choir from Denmark, LRC Chamber Singers from Riga as well as larger organizations such as the Busenbach Male Choirs Association from Germany. Eespere’s patriotic songs have been performed by the choirs of Estonia, Canada, the USA, and Australia. Some of them, like Time Of Waking and Estonia I Love You have been repeatedly included in the program of the All-Estonian Song Festivals. Eespere’s Latin songs De amore aeterno, Festina lente and Ritus have resounded in churches and cathedrals of Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Norway, Croatia and Spain. The major introducers of Eespere’s choral music have been the Jutland Chamber Choir and the Sonnelund Chamber Choir from Denmark, the male choir Orphei Drдnger Uppsala, the mixed choirs of Atlanta Choraliens and of Portland University, and Tokyo Philharmonic Choir.
During the last 15 years instrumental concertos and chamber pieces have also been born by commissions by performers and chamber ensembles like Jean-Claude Gérard, Eleftheria Kotzia, Maarika Jдrvi, NYYD Ensemble, Arsis Handbell Ensemble, Klaus Jдckle, Hermann Hudde, Neeme Punder, and Heiki Mдtlik, to name a few.
Eespere’s works have won awards at several music contests, eg the 2nd prize at the 6th International Contest of Choral Music in Trentinos (Italy, 1991, Glorificatio), Diplom Opera segnalata at the 21st International Contest of Choral Music in Arezzo (Italy, 1994, Invocatio), the 1st prize at the Contest of New Songs for the Estonian National Male Choir (1996, Sub specie quietatis), the 3rd prize at the Contest of New Instrumental Concertos for an Award from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (1997, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra), 2nd prize at the Estonian Male Choirs’ Association Contest of New Songs for Male Choirs (2000, Day Of The Seven Sleepers).

René Eespere - De spe
Жанр: Modern Classical
Год выпуска диска: 2009
Производитель диска: Estonia

01 Epigram I (for tenor and chamber orchestra)
02 Epigram IV (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
03 Epigram III (for baritone and chamber orchestra)
04 Epigram V (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
05 Epigram II (for tenor and chamber orchestra)
06 Epigram VI (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
07 Epigram VII (for baritone and chamber orchestra)
08 Invocatio (for baritone, mixed choir and chamber orchestra)
09 Mater rosae (for mixed choir and chamber orchestra)

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