The Wanderer´s evening song (Rändaja õhtulaul) (2001)
(for mixed choir)

Wanderer’s Evening Song (Rändaja õhtulaul, 2001) for mixed choir was written for the 20th anniversary of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) and is dedicated to the choir and its founder and conductor Tõnu Kaljuste (*1953). Tüür combines several poems of the famous Estonian poet Ernst Enno (1875–1934) from the first half of the 20th century to an astonishingly consistent narrative of an imaginative wanderer, who is bewitched by the sombre silence of northern woods, longing for home, marvels the golden strings and rays reaching over the deep water and life as the one blissful way to reach God and His light. Both the music and the romantical poems (recalling Goethe and Rückert) are composed in the dramatical tension between dissonant textures up to brightening chords and shifting tonality. It rises the listener to a level of a higher consciousness which is a kind of natural religiosity. (Gerhard Lock)