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

Paavo Järvi

Jüri Reinvere, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Mirjam Mesak, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman, Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Von Richard Bratby, 18 Juli 2023

Laden, bitte warten...

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“where you feel the basses as a tremor in the air even before you hear them”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Pärnu Concert Hall, Pärnu, am 15 Juli 2023

Reinvere, On the Ship of Fools (World premiere)

Strauss R., Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

Bruch, Kol Nidrei: Adagio on Hebrew Melodies, Op.47

Berlioz, Harold in Italien, Op. 16

Telemann, Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 (Largo)

Pinchas Zukerman, Viola

Amanda Forsyth, Cello

Estonian Festival Orchestra

Paavo Järvi, Musikalische Leitung

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Pärnu Concert Hall, Pärnu, am 16 Juli 2023

Reinvere, On the Ship of Fools

Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder

Strauss R., Morgen, Op.27 Nr.4

Strauss R., Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

Strauß, Delirien Waltz, (Delirium Waltz) Op.212

Mirjam Mesak, Sopran

Estonian Festival Orchestra

Paavo Järvi, Musikalische Leitung

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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Estonian Festival Orchestra make Carnegie Hall debut with Arvo Pärt

David Wolfson, 23rd October

Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra don’t skirt all the pitfalls of a single-composer program in an all-Pärt evening at Carnegie Hall.

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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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Richard Bratby

Richard Bratby is a critic and cultural historian writing for The Spectator, Gramophone and The Critic, as well as providing programme notes and concert marketing copy for orchestras, festivals and concert promoters in Europe, the USA and Australasia. Formerly a concerts manager for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, he is the author of Forward: 100 Years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Classical Music: An Illustrated History. He is currently writing a history of the Academy of Ancient Music. A very rusty cellist and extremely occasional horn player, he lives in Lichfield, UK.