Requiem; Musica Sacra (2007)

NTR-podium zette in november 2010 met een documentaire enkele Estlandse componisten en de nationale zangcultuur in dat kleine land voor het voetlicht (volg daarvoor de link). "Kreek, we are told, was the youngest founder of the professional school of Estonian music (..). The writing in his Requiem is dignified, avoids polyphonic complexity and generally speaks directly to the listener. The least assertive of brass figures links the sweetly massed sound of the choir and at times adds underpinning from the organ. A motif uncannily like The Westminster Chimes rings out in seraphic confidence. Kreek's Requiem has a confident and gratifying swing and its sense of well-being and wholeness is not only to do with the return of The Westminster Chimes in the Agnus Dei. There is hardly anything operatic about this Requiem yet for anyone with a taste for Scandinavian choral works it has a beguiling quality that is irresistible. (Rob Barnett op musicweb-international.com)