“When listening to contemporary serious music, the audience is always in danger of being disappointed. We expect something radically new that will shake up the ideas of what music is; but if we get it, it’s hard to deal with it and decide whether it’s an innovation or a failure. More often, however, it happens…
The works of Elis Hallik and Liza Lim on the CD Kairos offer listeners a collection of chamber pieces that reveal their tension towards spectralist formulations and, to a lesser extent, interest in live electronics. As an Estonian composer born in 1986, Elis Hallik involved an orchestra, five ensembles, and numerous soloists, resulting in a…
Elis Halliku esimesel autoriplaadil “Born in Waves” kõlab peamiselt helilooja kammermuusika aastatest 2014–2022. Plaadibukletist saab lugeda Kristina Kõrveri väga hästi kirjutatud täpseid ja sisukaid annotatsioone igale teosele. Plaadi avalugu “Some Paths Will Always Lead Through the Shadows” mõjub kui sissekäik Elis Halliku muusikalossi. See avaneb kui vana raske puust uks, pikkamisi ja rõhukalt, ning ukseavast…
Jaanuar, 2024Elis Halliku autoriplaat „Born in Waves” MIRJE MÄNDLA 2023. aasta jääb eesti muusikalugu märgistama mitme olulise uue muusika helilooja autoriplaadi ilmumisega. Olgu siinkohal nimetatud Arash Yazdani (1985) topeltalbum „Propagation of Uncertainty” (plaadifirma Kairos), millel Yazdani teoseid esitavad tema enda kureeritud Tallinna Uue Muusika Ansambel, Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor, ERSO, Ensemble du Bout du Monde ja…
ELIS HALLIK: Some Paths Will Always Lead Through the Shadows; Concerto for two violins and string orchestra “Stoicheia”; To Become a Tree; Doch manchmal erhellt sich die Seele, wenn sie frohe Menschen denkt, dunkelgoldene Frühlingstage; Born in Waves; Touching the First Sounds; Impacts; Like a Swan; Above. Sirje Aleksandra Viise, soprano. Juta Ōunapuu-Mocanita and Triin…
Working in the field of composition means keeping in mind the sounds that the current time can provide and from this point of view the steps taken are gigantic, since a multitude of composers are looking into the acoustic operation as evidence of a bridge between reality and a sensitive artistic abstraction.Elis Hallik (1986) is…
Born In Waves is the debut album from this Estonia-born modern classical composer It’s a nine-track affair, which highlights the composer’s ability to create compelling work that seesaws between discord & harmony, tautness & flow, and sourness & sweetness.The CD release appears on Austria’s Kairos. It’s presented in the labels house style digipak- with a forty-page…
Estonian composer Elis Hallik’s debut on the Kairos label has an early justification in the recording of Born in Waves. In this sense, the composer comments: “I like to think that the structure can also work as an autonomous energy system, a multidirectional sense of time. Time and ambivalence are the different aspects of the same sound…
Elis Hallik is probably the most interesting Estonian composer who, thus far, i haven’t written much about. During my annual trips to the Estonian Music Days in recent years, she has rarely been featured, so until recently, all i knew of her music were two chamber works, To Become A Tree – probably her most well-known piece to date –…
„ERSO VABRIK”, 13.10. Paavli Kultuurivabrikus. Kavas Elis Hallik, Steve Reich, Jacob TV, Missy Mazzoli, Mokale Koapeng, Njabulo Phungula. Esitasid Taavi Orro (klarnet), Kristel Kiik (viiul), Maaren Vihermäe (viiul), Mairit Mitt-Bronikowska (vioola), Villu Vihermäe (tšello), Theodor Sink (tšello). Fotod: Teet Raik, Müürileht Küll on hea, et lõpuks ometi on järjest enam hakatud nüüdis- ja süvamuusikat harjumuspärastest…