Yoann Le Lan - Ferrum Splendidum - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sixty minutes of lute music with a « meditative » feel, made up of works that are both lighthearted and profound. Pieces by the « old-timers » filled with beauty and elegance have corne down to us, and A\ban Tixier, a professional lutenist, performs them with great generosity.

This an album that was inspired by life experiences. I used to be depressed, suicidal, abused, homeless, I got shot in my stomach when I was 16 and just all in all went through a lot of pain. Throughout my life music and poetry has been my outlet. I finally put away every excuse and created this albums'Ink Therapy'. I thought I did not have a voice, or because I don't curse or brag a lot I couldn't express myself through the hip hop genre. I'm going against all odds on this project. I'm talking about my life, my turn around, my story. This is my therapy, my way to .

This album contains a selection of key a cappella choral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür. For the Estonian composer born in 1959, words and music are intimately linked. The number of syllables in a word, the position of the tonic accent, and the word as a cultural phenomenon with a definite meaning are of essential importance. This can be heard in the Kyrie of his Missa Brevis (2013) where, like a spiral, the polyphony of the voices is transformed into a chordal texture at the beginning of the 'Christe eleison', and then dissolves into individual voices at the second 'Kyrie eleison'. Canticum Canticorum Caritatis (2020) is inspired by St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. Tüür dedicated this work to Endrik Üksvärav and Collegium Musicale, the performers on this album. The multidimensional Omnia Mutantur (2020) possesses an extremely clear structure, interweaving the famous thoughts of Ovid and Virgil about the transient nature of all things. Triglosson Trishagion (2008), indebted to the Orthodox tradition and sung in Estonian, Russian and Greek, and Wanderer's Evening Song (2001) complete this programme, which is characterised by a meditative, interiorised approach to the composer.