Heino

It seems, and was, ages ago that I last reviewed a disc of Estonian Heino Eller's orchestral music. That disc from Bella Musica-Antes is still worth hunting down as it overlaps with this Ondine example only in relation to the single-movement 24-minute violin concerto. The Ondine recording is unflinchingly forward and vivid. Eller's Violin Concerto has about it much the same rhapsodic air as the concertos by Delius and Moeran and RVW's Lark.

It seems, and was, ages ago that I last reviewed a disc of Estonian Heino Eller's orchestral music. That disc from Bella Musica-Antes is still worth hunting down as it overlaps with this Ondine example only in relation to the single-movement 24-minute violin concerto. The Ondine recording is unflinchingly forward and vivid. Eller's Violin Concerto has about it much the same rhapsodic air as the concertos by Delius and Moeran and RVW's Lark.

"Heino Eller was the consolidator, the man who - no less than Vaughan Williams in Britain - gave Estonian music a sense of direction." - International Record Review, Feb 2001 Heino Eller (1887-1970) is considered the father of modern Estonian music and teacher to virtually every notable composer in 20th century Estonian music, including Arvo Prt. With the current high interest in Estonian music, this is a good moment for ECM to highlight the historical contribution of Heino Eller alongside well-known composers Arvo Prt, Veljo Tormis and Erkki-Sven Tr, who have become firmly associated with the New Series label (13 recordings between them).