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Veljo Tormis

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Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 – 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the greatest choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. He is internationally famous for his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

Top songs

  1. La Kanteletar: I. Herkä neito
  2. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): IV. Talvemustrid (Winter Patterns): Virmalised (Northern Lights)
  3. Curse Upon Iron
  4. Estonian Lullaby
  5. Lauliku Lapsepoli
  6. Raua Needmine
  7. How Can I Recognize My Home
  8. The Singer's Childhood
  9. Raua needmine (Curse Upon Iron)
  10. Kust tunnen kodu (How Can I Recognise My Home)
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  1. Worry Breaks the Spirit
  2. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 2, The Sea Under the Swing
  3. Singing Aboard Ship
  4. Kust tunnen kodu
  5. Looduspildid No. 3 "Sügismaastikud": Looduspildid No. 3 "Sügismaastikud": VII. Kanarbik
  6. Songs Of The Ancient Sea
  7. The Bishop and the Pagan
  8. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 6, The Apple Tree
  9. Looduspildid No. 3 "Sügismaastikud": Looduspildid No. 3 "Sügismaastikud": II. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved
  10. Litany To Thunder
  11. Peegeldused Tasasest Maast
  12. Laulusild: Bridge of Song
  13. The Lost Geese
  14. Looduspildid: No. 3. Sugismaastikud: Tuul konnumaa kohal
  15. Incantatio maris aestuosi (Incantation for a Stormy Sea)
  16. Muistse mere laulud
  17. Pikse litaania
  18. Pikse litaania (Litany To Thunder)
  19. VII. Kanarbik
  20. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 3: Vastlalaulud (Shrovetide Songs): No. 1. Vistel-vastel
  21. Three I Had These Words of Beauty
  22. Meelespea
  23. Leavas Lauldakse
  24. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: II. Clouds Racing Across the Sky
  25. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: V. Wind Along the Heath
  26. Estonian Lullaby - Var.
  27. Tasase maa laul
  28. 4 Estonian Lullabies: No. 2, It’s Time for the Little Berry to Sleep
  29. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: I. It is Late Summer
  30. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 3, A Pretty Girl on the Swing
  31. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 3: Vastlalaulud (Shrovetide Songs): No. 2. Lina loitsimine (Casting a Spell Upon Flax)
  32. Kord me tuleme tagasi (Once We Will Reappear)
  33. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 5, A Timid Girl on the Swing
  34. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 1, The Narrow Swing
  35. Tormis: Swing Songs: No. 4, The Swing Asks for Gifts
  36. Looduspildid No. 3 "Sügismaastikud": VII. Kanarbik
  37. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 3: Vastlalaulud (Shrovetide Songs): No. 3. Liulaskmise-laul (Sledging Song)
  38. 4 Estonian Lullabies: No. 1, I Sing for My Child
  39. Kolm mul oli kaunist sona (Three I Had Those Words of Beauty)
  40. Piiskop ja pagan
  41. Looduspildid: No. 3. Sugismaastikud: On hilissuvi
  42. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): No. 3. Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): On hilissuvi (Late Summer)
  43. Haned kadunud
  44. Laevas lauldakse (Singing Aboard the Ship)
  45. Muistse mere laulud (Song of the Ancient Sea)
  46. Tormis: Saint John's Day Songs: No. 4, Why We Look Forward to Saint John's Arrival
  47. The Tower Bell in My Village
  48. 4 Estonian Lullabies: No. 3, Let the Cradle Swing!
  49. Forgotten Peoples / Livonian Heritage: 1. Waking The Birds
  50. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): No. 3. Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): Kanarbik (Heather)
  51. Melancholy Songs: No. 1, The Singer's Childhood
  52. Viimane laev
  53. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 5: Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs): No. 1. Kutse jaanitulele I (Call to the Midsummer Bonfire I)
  54. 4 Estonian Lullabies: No. 4, Lulling
  55. Viru vanne (The Viru Oath)
  56. Muistse mere laulud (Songs of the Ancient Sea)
  57. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 5: Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs): No. 2. Kutse jaanitulele II (Call to the Midsummer Bonfire II)
  58. Looduspildid: IV. Talvemustrid: Virmalised
  59. Piispa ja pakana: The Bishop and the Pagan
  60. Helletused (Herdboy Calls)
  61. Bridge of Song
  62. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): No. 3. Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): Tuul konnumaa kohal (Wind Along the Heath)
  63. Latvian Bourdon Songs: II. Rota dziesma (Spring song)
  64. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): No. 3. Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): Ule taeva jooksevad pilved (Clouds Racing in the Sky)
  65. Laevas lauldakse
  66. Latvian Bourdon Songs: I. Garais sauciens (Song of Meeting)
  67. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 5: Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs): No. 3. Ei ole pussil puutav (Cannot Be Caught by the Shot of a Gun)
  68. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: III. Pale Light
  69. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 5: Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs): No. 4. Miks Jaani oodatakse (Why We Look Forward to St. John's Arrival)
  70. Kullervo's Message
  71. Looduspildid (Nature Pictures): No. 3. Sugismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes): Kahvatu valgus (Pale Light)
  72. Forgotten Peoples / Livonian Heritage: 2. Day Of A Herdsboy
  73. Melancholy Songs: No. 3, Orphan's Lament
  74. 2 Laulu Ernst Enno sonadele (2 Songs after Ernst Enno): No. 1. Noore suve muinasjutt (Early Summer's Fairy Tale)
  75. Forgotten Peoples / Livonian Heritage: 3. Shrove Tuesday
  76. Latvian Bourdon Songs: III. Kazu apdziedasanas (Wedding song contest)
  77. Autumn Landscapes: VII. Kanarbik "Heather"
  78. Melancholy Songs: No. 2, Maidens' Sorrow
  79. Autumn Landscapes: I. On hilissuvi "It Is Late Summer"
  80. Forgotten Peoples / Ingrian Evenings: 1. Röntuska 1 (A Dance Song)
  81. Kaksikpuhendus (Double Dedication): I. Uhte laulu tahaks laulda (I'd like to Sing a Song)
  82. Lauliku lapsepõli
  83. Forgotten Peoples / Livonian Heritage: 5. Sang The Father, Sang His Son
  84. Reminiscentia / Summer Motifs: II. Thunderstorm
  85. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: VII. Sad Purple Heather
  86. Eesti kalendrilaulud (Estonian Calendar Songs), Set 5: Jaanilaulud (St. John's Day Songs): No. 5. Jaani hobu (St. John's Steed)
  87. Latvian Bourdon Songs: IV. Seru dziesma (Funeral song)
  88. Reminiscentia / Autumn Landscapes: VI. Cold Autumn Night
  89. Reminiscentia / Spring Sketches: III. Evening Sky
  90. Forgotten Peoples / Ingrian Evenings: 6. A Roundelay

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