Sol Gabetta shines in Dvořák with the Estonian Festival Orchestra

Sol Gabetta

Paavo Järvi, Sol Gabetta and the Estonian Festival Orchestra

By Chanda VanderHart, 26 January 2024

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“every phrase – every long bowing – was given its ideal breadth and space”

Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 24 January 2024

Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104

Casals, El cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds)

Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 1 in G minor "Winter Daydreams", Op.13

Sibelius, Andante festivo

Silvestrov, Stille Musik (Abendserenade)

Estonian Festival Orchestra

Sol Gabetta, Cello

Paavo Järvi, Conductor

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.

***11

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”.

****1

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.

*****

Smiles of a summer night: Paavo Järvi at the Pärnu Music Festival

Richard Bratby, 15th July

New music, old friends and supercharged Strauss from the Estonian Festival Orchestra.

****1

Estonian Festival Orchestra covers itself in glory in Pärnu

Alexander Hall, 16th July

In a programme of Lutosławski, Richard Strauss and Tchaikovsky conducted by Paavo Järvi, there are no weak links in the playing of the EFO and Stefan Dohr’s versatility on the horn is once again on display.

*****

Business as usual: Paavo Järvi gets the band back together in Pärnu

Mark Pullinger, 15th July

The Estonian Festival Orchestra reunites under its founder at the eleventh edition of the Pärnu Music Festival.

****1

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Chanda VanderHart

Dr. Chanda VanderHart is a pianist, musicologist and creative who lives, works and plays in Vienna, Austria. For more on Chanda and her projects, click here.