Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Mihkel Kerem: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: Mihkel Kerem: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS

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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.

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