Helirežissöör: Ats Treimaa / Eesti Rahvusringhääling
Salvestas Klassikaraadio
Foto: Rene Jakobson


not to be cut off
not through the slightest partition
shut out from (the law of) the stars
The inner — what is it?  center of all centers, core of core, /of all seeds the seed/
(almond self-enclosed and growing sweet)
all this universe, to the furthest stars
/to all the stars this is what you feed/
and beyond them (is your flesh, your fruit)

now you feel /you sense nothing/
(how nothing clings to you)
your vast shell reaches into endless space /in the infinite is where/
(and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow)
/outside a radiance pours in/.  (blazing high above your head)
high above you

illuminated in your infinite peace
a billion stars go spinning through the night /glowing and full as around they are spun/
/But somehting has already started in you
that will survive every sun/ 
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)

Et tähtedest iial 
lahku ei viiks tee
Irduda neist kübetki ei saa
Me sees – mis on see?
 
Keskmete kese, tuumade tuum / kõigi seemnete seeme /
Kogu ilma, kaugeimate tähtedeni välja
/ Kõiki tähti sellega toidad /
ja enamat neistki…
 
Nüüd ei tunne / ei taju sa midagi /
Su päratu kest laiub määratusse ilmaruumi / lõpmatuses on paik /
/ kus väljast sisse kiirgab sära /
Kõrgel su kohal
 
Küütlemas su ääretus rahus
Läbi öö keerleb miljardeid tähti
/ täidlaselt hõõgudes tiirlevad ringi /
/ Kuid sinus on juba tärganud miski, 
mis üle elab iga päiksegi /
 
Kuid see, mis sinu sees, 
alles jääb, kui kõik tähed on surnud.
(Tõlkinud Pirjo Jonas)

Maria Kõrvits - Center Of All Centers, Core Of Core (Iris Oja&YXUS)

Performed by Pärnu City Orchestra, conducted by Kaspar Mänd
Live recording by ERR and Lisete Velt, sound engineer Andres Olema

betoon (hommage à Olev Siinmaa)/ live recording

Sõnal "lace" on mitu tähendust: pits, nöör, paelutama, kinni nöörima.
Teose kirjutamine sarnaneb paljuski pitsi või kanga punumisele. Ühest peenikesest niidist saab punuda terve kanga. Punumise käigus võivad tekkida pusad, need tuleb üles harutada ja uuesti otsast alustada.

Paljudes kultuurides on kudumise kunst seotud jumaliku maailmaga, see on jumalikku päritolu. Kangasse kootakse või põimitakse väikseid vigu, et tuletada meile meelde kogu loodud elu ebatäiuslikkust.

Dirigent Taavi Kull ja Tartu Ülikooli Sümfooniaorkester
Toimetaja Lisete Velt, helirežissöör Kaspar Kärner © ERR/Klassikaraadio
Foto: Rene Jakobson

Lace for symphony orchestra

Performed by Vokālā grupa PUTNI, Arvydas Kazlauskas (saxophone), Ieva Saliete (harpsichord).
Love Poem
for 8 female voices (SSSSAAAA) or female choir.
Commissioned by Festival Afekt 2022, originally written for 8 female voices, soprano saxophone and harpsichord.
Written for ensemble Putni, Arvydas Kazlauskas and Ieva Saliete.

Score available here: https://www.emic.ee/?sisu=tootekataloog2&mid=147&kat=41&id=2875&lang=est&tid=2796

Maria Kõrvits - Love Poem: I Yours Is The Face

Maria Kõrvits - Love Poem: III When Your Hand Touches Mine

...lainetab taevas / ripples in the sky

Umbra(Kaspar Mänd - oboe, Kristjan Hallik - viiul) 2009

/falling up into the bowl of sky/
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Anu Tali
Live recording by Klassikaraadio, Tanel Klesment

langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi

terendav, külm

Taevas on
mitmendat päeva
tasa
ta on taas
lindude ja
aadete pärast
kes viimaks 
hääletul sahinal
oma teedele 
tagasi saavad
siludes tiivaotstel
lennukikeredest
küntud sügavad
valged vaod ja
tulitavad haavad
all tasase taeva
on päevad kergemad
kanda üle mäe
ja õhtudki annavad
õrnalt oma käe
all siledaks silutud
taeva on 
unne vajudes
siiski veidike valus
(Veronika Kivisilla)


Terra Incognita

Taevas on mitmendat päeva tasa

Performed by the Estonian National Male Choir and the Estonian Police and Border Guard Orchestra, conducted by Mikk Üleoja, 11.05.2017
Recorded by Estonian Public Broadcasting, Marge-Ly Rookäär.

Flower after flower…
Stalks rise from (the black hollows) beneath.
The flowers, made of light...
I am the stalk.
My roots go down to the depths of the world,
through the earth dry, and damp earth,
through veins of lead and silver.
I am all fibre.
All tremors shake me,
and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs.
Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
I am rooted, but I flow.

From the novel "The Waves" by Virginia Woolf

flower after flower... for male choir and wind ensemble

Performed by Norrbotten NEO, conducted by B Tommy Andersson

"Stalks rise from the black hollows beneath.
I hold a stalk in my hand.
I am the stalk.

My roots go down to the depths of the world,
through the earth dry with brick, and damp earth,
through veins of lead and silver.

I am all fibre.
All tremors shake me,
and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs.

…and I feel come over me the sense of the earth under me, and my roots going down and down 
till they wrap themselves round 
some hardness at the centre.
I am rooted, but I flow."


Excerpts from the novel “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf

through

Performed by Estonian National Male Choir, conducted by Mikk Üleoja.

/I am calling to you from afar;
 Calling to you since the very beginning of days. 
Calling to you across millennia, 
For aeons of time, 
Calling, calling. 
Since always. 
It is part of your being, my voice, 
But it comes to you faintly and you only hear it sometimes; 
"I don't know," you may say. 
But somewhere you know. 
"I can't hear," you say, 
"what is it and where?" 
But somewhere you hear, 
and deep down you know.
 For I am that in you which has been always;
 I am that in you which will never end.
 Even if you say, 
"Who is calling?" 
Even if you think, 
"Who is that?"
 Where will you run? 
Just tell me. 
Can you run away from yourself?
For I am the Only One for you; 
There is no other, 
Your Promise, your Reward am I alone, 
Your Punishment, your longing
 And your Goal./

(Anonymus)

I Am Calling To You for male choir (2018)

Performed by Head Ööd, Vend and Pärt Uusberg.
Recorded by Estonian Public Broadcasting and Klassikaraadio.

Taevas ja meri
on kaotanud eralduspiiri
Rahnuparv koos virvendava peegeldusega
Hõljumas taevamere taustal

(Katkend Sirje Kadalipu luuletusest "Akvarell III")

Akvarell III (2017)

Widening circles for oboe and piano

I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I will give myself to it.

Excerpt form a poem  by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

I First circle
II Second circle
III Third circle

Written for and performed by Ingely Laiv and Jakob Teppo

Widening circles

Performed by Voces Musicales and conducted by David Puderbaugh.


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Mina see olin

Performed by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra string section, conducted by Clement Powers.
Live recording by ERR.

"In a cave a tree grows, roots feeding on light 
laid down aeons ago, like water of prehistoric storms. 
Light burns annealment into the ring of years, the sear of desire. 
Indirection in the dark is finding direction out.” 

Excerpt from a poem "Darkness and deeper dark" by Brian Swann.

Darkness and deeper dark for string orchestra (2019)

Contact: mkorvits@gmail.com

Maria Kõrvits began her composition studies at the Tallinn Music High School under Alo Põlmäe. From 2006–2012 she studied composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Helena Tulve and Tõnu Kõrvits. From 2007–2008 she studied with Fabio Nieder in Trieste, Italy, as an exchange student. She has taken part in several masterclasses with Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Ole Lützow-Holm, Adriana Hölzky, Louis Andriessen, Rafael Reina and many others. She has also taken part in a mastercourse with Ensemble Modern and Péter Eötvös in 2011.

Kõrvits has written mainly ensemble works and choral music. Also she has created music for film, dance performance, exhibitions and installation – cooperation in this field bends her to the Estonian Academy of Arts as well as various independent artists and choreographers.

Her works have been performed at the Estonian Music Days Festival, the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre as well as in Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Germany and Canada. Her music have been peformed by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Chamber Choir Sireen, Mixed Choir HUIK!, SaxEst and others. Orchestral work "Langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi" ("falling up into the bowl of sky") achieved the first prize in the category of composers under 30 at the 63rd International Rostrum of Composers held in Wroclaw in 2016. For her successful creative activity, Maria Kõrvits was given the Award of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2016.

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