Veljo Tormis - Proloog (Tütarde saatus) (The Daughters' Fate)

A piece by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis from the album 'Eesti Ballaadid' ('Estonian Ballads')

The Estonian Ballads are based on the lyroepic regilaul and are cemented together by the unifying part of Mother and the motif of the fate of daughters. Authentic texts (here in Standard Estonian) and original melodies from various parts of Estonia have been used. A certain similarity in the melodic material is intentional. The all-pervading unifying motif is fate.

Veljo Tormis (b 1930) is an Estonian neoclassicist composer, who features the Estonian traditional song (regilaul) heavily in his music. ('Not I make use of folk song, folk song makes use of me,' the composer has said) Most of his music is vocal centered.

Libretto:
A mother had many daughters. There was not enough room for all of them, so some had to be taken away to the heath and fields. Now she hears their voices in birdsong every time she goes out to fetch water or firewood. That makes her sad, and she starts to call them home, but there is nobody to come any more.

More info on the composer: http://www.emic.ee/helilooja/veljotormis?lang=eng

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