Estonian Folk Song about going back to the Homeland. (Live in concert recording) Cantabile Chamber Singers Cheryll Chung - Conductor Drew Henderson - Audio - Video Church of the Redeemer October 22nd, 2016
Peep Sarapik (1949-1994), composer of the song, composed the music originally for another poem by Juhan Liiv, “I Would Take a Bond of Flowers”. In the process of composing he decided in favour of another poem, “He Flies Toward the Beehive” by Juhan Liiv. Composer Sarapik’s legacy consist of a great number of compositions for choirs (mostly for mixed and male choirs) and of some instrumental pieces (for strings and organ). He was also a dedicated conductor - he conducted the Tallinn Teachers’ Male Choir and in frame of several projects other choirs too, amongst which for the longest period the ERKI Chamber Choir - from its foundation in 1981 till his death in December 1994.
