Pärnu Music Festival – Estonian Festival Orchestra – Paavo Järvi conducts Pärt’s Collage über B-A-C-H and Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, with Fazıl Say playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Webcast.

Pärnu Music Festival – Estonian Festival Orchestra – Paavo Järvi conducts Pärt’s Collage über B-A-C-H and Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, with Fazıl Say playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. Webcast.

Jul 23, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Friday, July 21, 2023 Pärnu Concert Hall, Aida 4, Pärnu, 80011 Pärnu maakond, Estonia  Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Closing this year’s Pärnu Festival, Arvo Pärt’s early Collage über B-A-C-H took us back to 1964: post-war Iron Curtain Estonia, summer...
Pärnu Music Festival – Estonian Festival Orchestra – Paavo Järvi conducts Jüri Reinvere’s On the Ship of Fools, Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, with Mirjam Mesak singing Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Webcast.

Pärnu Music Festival – Estonian Festival Orchestra – Paavo Järvi conducts Jüri Reinvere’s On the Ship of Fools, Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, with Mirjam Mesak singing Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Webcast.

Jul 19, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Jüri Reinvere Sunday, July 16, 2023 Pärnu Concert Hall, Aida 4, Pärnu, 80011 Pärnu maakond, Estonia Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Jüri Reinvere’s On the Ship of Fools, commissioned by Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra, premiered July 15, is a winning...
Bernard Herrmann.

Bernard Herrmann.

Jun 29, 2023 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos

Edward Johnson writes… Today it’s the birthday of Bernard Herrmann – born June 29, 1911 in New York City (died December 24, 1975) – who is now generally recognised as one of Hollywood’s very finest movie composers. He scored the music for about fifty films,...