United Strings of Europe and soloists Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) and Colin Currie (percussion) under the baton of Julian Azkoul perform the world premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Memoirs at this year’s Two Moors Festival in Ashburton, UK. The piece was commissioned by the festival to celebrate their 25th anniversary.
In three movements, Tüür explores how memories can mislead us while thinking about the past. The first movement “Shimmer” is about how memories are often idealized and shimmering, but details can no longer be distinguished. This is further developed in the second movement “Misty Mirrors” and leads to the third movement “Dancing Patterns” where “the spirals of memory have carried us into unfamiliar waters, where long-lost images and forgotten scents suddenly rise to the surface from the depths of oblivion”, as Tüür describes the development.
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