Prom 42: Paavo Järvi flies the flag for Estonia

Von Mark Pullinger, 14 August 2018

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“carved from pine, crisp and fresh, surging with energy and athleticism”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Albert Hall, London, am 13 August 2018

Pärt, Symphony no. 3

Grieg, Klavierkonzert in a-Moll, Op.16

Debussy, Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune

Sibelius, Symphonie Nr. 5 in Es-Dur, Op.82

Sumera, The Spring Fly

Alfvén, Bergakungen (The Mountain King): Herd-Maid's Dance, Op.37 no. 4

Khatia Buniatishvili, Klavier

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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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.