A meditative Estonian celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt

Von David Smythe, 06 Oktober 2025

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“Kaljuste fashioned the composer’s humble spiritual vision”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: City Halls: Concert Hall, Glasgow, am 5 Oktober 2025

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

Pärt, L'Abbé Agathon

Pärt, Adam's Lament

Mägi, Vesper

Pärt, Fratres

Pärt, Te Deum

Maria Listra, Sopran

Harry Traksmann, Violine

Estnischer Philharmonischer Kammerchor

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

Tõnu Kaljuste, Musikalische Leitung

Celebrating a musical hero: Neeme Järvi at 85

Alexander Hall, 13th July

Neeme Järvi celebrates his 80th birthday in style, together with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and his daughter Maarika, in works by Mozart, Gluck and Dvořák.

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Two “Firsts” as Beethoven opens the Pärnu Music Festival

Mark Pullinger, 16th July

While Kalle Randalu proves an amiable soloist in the First Piano Concerto, it is Beethoven the firebrand who startles in Paavo Järvi's account of the First Symphony with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.

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Into silence: Arvo Pärt's distinctive soundworld casts a spell

Matthew Rye, 3rd February

A portrait concert of music by Arvo Pärt, while single-mindedly contemplative in tone, proves surprisingly absorbing in the hands of his most authoritative interpreters.

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Atonal explorations “through the forest” in Tallinn

Timmy Fisher, 5th May

The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra deliver a bold but challenging programme of atonal works.

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Arvo Pärt ou la modestie et l'humanité consacrées

Manuel Gaulhiac, 20th October

Arvo Pärt a fait le déplacement à la Philharmonie pour cette soirée entièrement consacrée à sa musique, avec l'Orchestre de chambre de Tallinn et le Chœur philharmonique de chambre d'Estonie.

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A high-flying Creation in Estonia

Simon Rees, 7th August

A high-flying, zip-wire staging of Haydn's The Creation in Tallinn.

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David Smythe

David the farmer was drawn into music through choirs, orchestras, taking part in and directing 'serious' opera as a student. Passionate about live classical music, particularly chamber opera, unusual pieces and events and giving the next generation the tools to engage with the classical world.