Aeris
Christoph Eß, Marc Gruber, Stephan Schottstädt
Aeris is the ninth album on ECM New Series that puts the dynamic and expressive music of Erkki-Sven Tüür centre stage. Olari Elts, a long-time champion of Tüür's music, conducts the Ests National Symphony Orchestra in compelling, intensely focused performances of Phantasma, De Profundis and Tüür's tenth symphony ÆRIS, a powerful drama of continuously shifting energies and interactions, scored for horn quartet and orchestra. The symphony consists of four movements that flow seamlessly into one another. Tüür: "Each movement expresses a different constellation in the relationship between the soloist ensemble and the orchestra. Sometimes their motifs disperse themselves as imitations in the orchestra, which begin to change and gradually take on a life of their own ..." The album was recorded in the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn.
