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)

Sumptuous Sheffield Chamber Music Festival finale

Phil Parker, 23rd May

Ensemble 360 and soprano Claire Booth test to the limits the definition of ‘chamber music’ in this richly orchestral closing concert of the 2026 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.

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More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

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Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

Roy Westbrook, 21st May

Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” from Gustav Mahler.

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Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Max Lima, 21st May

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

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Memorable Mendelssohn from Marek Janowski and the New York Phil

Susan Stempleski, 21st May

Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin plays Haydn before the esteemed German maestro conducts a vibrant Scottish Symphony.

****1

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

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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