A high-flying Creation in Estonia

By Simon Rees, 14 September 2015

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“the Latvia State Choir... tonal subtlety and sheer vocal beauty of sound”

Reviewed at St Birgitta Convent, Tallinn on 7 August 2015

Haydn, The Creation (Die Schöpfung), Hob XXI:2

Risto Joost, Conductor

Ran Arthur Braun, Director

Marcin Bronikowski, Baritone

Juhan Tralla, Tenor

Alfia Kamalova, Soprano

State Choir Latvija

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

A meditative Estonian celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt

David Smythe, 5th October

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, present an Arvo Pärt portrait concert in Glasgow.

****1

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.

***11

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.

****1

Atonal explorations “through the forest” in Tallinn

Timmy Fisher, 5th May

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

***11

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra in a programme of premières

Gavin Dixon, 12th April

“Two Ladies”, the title of this afternoon’s concert of the Estonian Music Days festival, referred to its two violin soloists, Triin Ruubel and Juta Õunapuu-Mocanita.

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.

Haydn's The Creation given a high-flying staging in Estonia