Tüür: Strata

"Tüür charges his scores with a primal energy that reaches past its textural complexity to speak directly to the listener." - International Record Review

The powerful album Strata presents large-scale music for orchestral forces from Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür. The composer was introduced on ECM with the 1996 release Crystallisatio and has come to be considered one of the most celebrated of Estonian composers - after Arvo Pärt probably the most widely-played internationally. This is Tüür's fifth ECM New Series album with compositions that are, in his words, "abstract dramas in sound, with individual characters and an extremely dynamic chain of events; unfolding in a space that is constantly shifting, expanding and contracting."