Oxymoron / Salve Regina / Ardor / etc

"The performances all seem to be of the highest quality, and two artists deserve special mention: Pedro Carneiro for his unbeliveable feats of prestidigitation as marimba soloist in Ardor, and Leho Karin for the sustained intensity she brings to the volatile and highly contrasted expressive range of Dedication. Fans of Tuur need not hestitate."
(Five Stars BBC Music Sept 2007)

"The music may be dense at times, and it's certainly the product of someone cognisant of recent modernist trends, but Tüür charges his scores with a primal energy that reaches past its textural complexity to speak directly to the listener. If you don't yet know his music, here's a fine place to start."
Martin Anderson, International Record Review

"Varied and evocative, full of fascinating sonorities, Ardor is motoric and eruptive in the outer spans, contemplative but still volatile at the centre. Pedro Carneiro, the dedicatee, plays with commendable authority and virtuosity. The composer describes this concerto as a transitional work away from his older style - represented by the haunting cello-and-piano Dedication - to ones based "on different premises"… These "different premises are heard best in the title-track Oxymoron. … The works on this fourth ECM release devoted to Tüür's music are executed with commitment and skill… They present a spectrum of the composer at his most recent."
Guy Rickards, Gramophone