Solemn rites and fractured chants open Estonian Music Days in Tartu

Jaani Kirik (St John’s Church), Tartu

Anda Eglīte & Ieva Mežgaile (kokles), Andis Klučnieks (flute) and Artūrs Noviks (accordion)

By Lawrence Dunn, 27 April 2024

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“a kind of chromatic bath, warm and enveloping, deep and serious”

Reviewed at Jaani Kirk (St John's Church), Tartu on 26 April 2024

Zilveris, Cantus in memoriam

Natalevičius, Fractured Chant (world premiere)

Jõeleht, Musica Nocturna (world premiere)

Leemets, T/AI/M (world premiere)

Ešenvalds, Cryptic

Altera Veritas

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Reviewed at Tartu Toome Hill (Toomemägi), Tartu on 26 April 2024

Lill, The Call of the Emajõgi (world premiere)

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

A Evgeny Kissin tour de force in Boston

Kevin Wells, 25th April

Andrey Boreyko makes an impressive debut with the Boston Symphony, where Evgeny Kissin performs in not one, but two piano concertos.

****1

Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Peter Quantrill, 25th April

Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

****1

Stephen Hough makes a convincing case for Rachmaninov 1 with the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 24th April

On a return visit to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Wilson shapes A London Symphony with melancholy sweep.

****1

Patriotic angst with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair

Nick Butters, 24th April

Patriotic Sibelius and early Mendelssohn are served up at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

***11

Yunchan Lim at Carnegie Hall: unmooring musical time

Edward Sava-Segal, 24th April

Schubert and Scriabin are shaped by expansion and suspension in the Korean pianist’s Carnegie Hall recital.

****1

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Lawrence Dunn

Lawrence is commissioning editor at Bachtrack. He is a composer, improviser, pianist and writer. He has taught at Cambridge, Huddersfield and Sheffield universities. He has written music for, among others the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Slagwerk Den Haag, Philip Thomas, Juliet Fraser, Ilya Gringolts, Plus-Minus, Exaudi, Apartment House and Explore Ensemble.

Solemn rites and fractured chants open Baltic & Estonian Music Days in Tartu