Estonian Festival Orchestra make Carnegie Hall debut with Arvo Pärt

Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra in Carnegie Hall

Hans Christian Aavik, Midori and the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Von David Wolfson, 24 Oktober 2025

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“Järvi... teased out an arresting progression from anguish through melancholy to resignation”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City, am 23 Oktober 2025

Pärt, Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten. Für eine Glocke und Streichorchester

Pärt, Perpetuum mobile

Pärt, La Sindone

Pärt, Adam's Lament

Pärt, Tabula rasa

Pärt, Fratres

Pärt, Swansong

Pärt, Credo

Estonian Festival Orchestra

Paavo Järvi, Musikalische Leitung

Midori, Violine

Hans Christian Aavik, Violine

Nico Muhly, Klavier

Estnischer Philharmonischer Kammerchor

Tõnu Kaljuste, Chorleitung

Geburtstagskonzert für Pärt: das Estonian Festival Orchestra in Zürich

Thomas Schacher, 19th October

Paavo Järvi wirkte als Vermittler und präsentierte einen aufschlussreichen Querschnitt durch das Werk des 90 Jahre alten Komponisten. Als Publikumsmagnet wirkte auch die Geigerin Midori.

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Ein facettenreicher Abend mit Paavo Järvi in der Elbphilharmonie

Stefan Pillhofer, 15th August

Der estnische Dirigent bringt mit seinem jungen Estonian Festival Orchestra eines seiner traditionellen Programme nach Hamburg.

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Bizet raises the roof at the Pärnu Music Festival

Peter Quantrill, 13th July

The Estonian Festival Orchestra is on scintillating form in a rare outing for Roma, Bizet's own “Italian Symphony”.

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Sol Gabetta shines in Dvořák with the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Chanda VanderHart, 24th January

The Estonian Festival Orchestra revels in Dvořák and Tchaikovsky on the Vienna leg of its European tour with Paavo Järvi.

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Blistering Buchbinder, trenchant Järvi at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 16th August

Sometimes artists surprise, but in a wholly positive way: nothing remotely bland about Buchbinder's approach to Beethoven's C minor concerto and a Tchaikovsky 1 streets ahead of Järvi's recent recording.

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Smiles of a summer night: Paavo Järvi at the Pärnu Music Festival

Richard Bratby, 15th July

New music, old friends and supercharged Strauss from the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

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David Wolfson

David Wolfson holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.

Estonian Festival Orchestra make Carnegie Hall debut with an evening of Arvo Pärt