Composers: Heino Eller
Compositions: Symphonic poems
Performers: Estonian National SO/Olari Elts
Catalogue Number: ONDINE ODE1335-2

It was a dark and stormy night… The famous phrase applies perfectly to Heino Eller’s Night Calls, a symphonic poem that the Estonian composer wrote in 1920-21. This exciting piece, with its suggestions of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Liadov’s Kikimora, opens this orchestral program.

Eller is one of those fine 20th-century composers whose music is...