Thoresen/ Latvian Radio Choir/ Putnins - Mythes Etoiles

Mythes etolies contains both exiting new music from the Scandinavian/Baltic area and modern classics for a cappella choir. The main work on the recording is Thoresen's Mythes etoiles, large-scale, three-movement setting of a poem by Giacinto Scelsi, a masterpiece of similar importance to Olivier Messiaen's Cinq Rechants or Iannis Xenakis's Nuits.