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Urmas Sisask
12+ albums
contemporary classicalchoralestoniancomposersacred music
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Urmas Sisask (born September 9, 1960) is an Estonian composer. One of the major inspirations for his music is astronomy. Based on the trajectories of the planets in the solar system, he created the planetal scale, a mode consisting of the notes C#, D, F#, G#, and A. Later, he discovered to his surprise that this was exactly the same as the Japanese Kumayoshi mode. Apart from choral works Urmas Sisask has written chamber, instrumental and orchestral music. He has developed his own, expressive language with an idiom closer to the old authentic church modes than to the tensions of the major-minor system. Being also fond of the suggestibility of recurrent phrases he has sometimes been described as a musical shaman. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 - Pleiades : 17. II Maja
8,9342Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 25. Ursa Minor [Peace]
1,5043Sisask : Gloria Patri... 24 Hymns for Mixed Choir : XVII Dominus vobiscum
5954Sisask : Gloria Patri... 24 Hymns for Mixed Choir : VII Deo gratias
4845Sisask : Gloria Patri... 24 Hymns for Mixed Choir : VI Kyrie
3996Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 1. Aquarius [Dream]
2587Benedictio
2098Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 2. Vulpecula [Anxiety]
2039Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 3. Delphinus [Connection]
19110Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle Op.52 : 5. Coma Berenices [Mutability]
173albums
Sisask : Starry Sky Cycle
Urmas Sisask : Gloria Patri..., Magnificat
Baltic voices 2
Urmas Sisask : Gloria Patri... 15 Meditative and Tranquil Hymns for Mixed Choir A Cappella
Urmas Sisask: 2 Cosmic Piano Pieces
Zoforbit: A Space Odyssey
Gloria Patri... (1988 15 meditative and tranquil hymns for mixed choir a cappella)
Musica Intima: Invocation
Nordic Voices
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Singing Revolution Estonia
Urmas Sisask: Starry Sky Cycle: Equatorial Sky
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