ESTER MÄGI

Orchestral Music

 

Symphony

Piano Concerto No. 1

Variations for Piano, Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra

Vesper

Bukoolika

 

Ada Kuuseoks, Mati Mikalai - piano, Tarmo Pajusaar - clarinet

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Arvo Volmer / Mihkel Kütson

 

In her native country Ester Mägi (b. 1922) is known as ‘the First Lady of Estonian music’.

 

A much-loved figure at home, Mägi is now beginning to enjoy a reputation further a field, where her incorporation of elements of Estonian folk-music into classical forms is being recognised as a fresh and original contribution to European artmusic.

 

Toccata Classics TOCC0054