| PAAVO JÄRVI ESTONIAN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA CREDO ARVO PÄRT 90 Alpha Classics Album release 5 September Concert Tour 15 – 23 October Tallinn, Vienna, Zürich, Hamburg & New York |
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| photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas |
| “World-famous Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi picks up the baton. He has 90 minutes to record Arvo Pärt’s legendary Credo for choir and symphony orchestra. The other works for the Pärt album are already in the can, and the album is planned to be released in a few weeks, just in time for Pärt’s 90th birthday.” |
| Helsingin Sanomat |
| Credo is the title of Paavo Järvi’s new recording with the Estonian Festival Orchestra, recorded live at this summer’s Pärnu Music Festival and featuring ten of Arvo Pärt’s iconic works, including the world premiere recording of Silouette, dedicated to and premiered by Paavo Järvi in 2010 and Credo, the work famously premiered by his father Neeme, in 1968. |
| The album will be released on 5 September by Alpha Classics, just in time for Pärt’s 90th birthday on 11 September and will be followed by a tour to Tallinn’s Estonia Concert Hall (15 October), Vienna Konzerthaus (18 October), Tonhalle Zürich (19 October), Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (20 October) and New York’s Carnegie Hall (23 October). |
| Paavo Järvi, who has known Arvo Pärt since childhood and collaborated with him throughout his career said: “Celebrating Arvo’s landmark birthday and paying tribute to him has been personally very important and for this year’s festival, recording and tour with the Estonian Festival Orchestra, I wanted to include compositions that documented his entire compositional process.” |
| The title Credo highlights Pärt’s seminal work, famously premiered in Soviet occupied Tallinn by Neeme Järvi in 1968. With giant orchestral and choral forces, it was the closing work at this year’s Pärnu Music Festival, with Paavo taking over the baton from his father for a monumental performance which, five decades after its premiere, has lost none of its sting. |
| “The power and depth of the work, its transcendence and moving performance made it an unforgettable conclusion to the festival.” |
| Opera Plus |
| “What living artist could ever dream of a better tribute from his fellow citizens?” |
| Scherzo |
| Also featured on the album are La Sindone, Fratres, Swansong, Für Lennart in memoriam, Da pacem Domine, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Mein Weg and Estonian Lullaby. |
| “Lullabies are like little pieces of lost Paradise” said Arvo Pärt “a small consolation combined with the feeling of profundity and intimacy … for adults and for the child within every one of us.” |
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| Release date: 5 September 2025 Alpha Classics |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Estonian National Male Choir Ellerhein Girls’ Choir / Ellerhein Alumni Choir Kalle Randalu (piano) Paavo Järvi (conductor) |
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| ARVO PÄRT TOUR |
| 15 October, Wednesday Tallinn Estonian Concert Hall |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Estonian National Male Choir Ellerhein Girls’ Choir Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Paavo Järvi Soloists: Midori and Hans Christian Aavik (violin) Kalle Randalu (piano) Arvo Pärt: La Sindone · Perpetuum mobile · Tabula Rasa · Adam’s Lament · Swansong · Credo |
| 18 October, Saturday Vienna Konzerthaus |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Konzertchor Interpunkt Paavo Järvi Soloists: Midori and Hans Christian Aavik (violin) Kalle Randalu (piano) Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten · Perpetuum mobile · La Sindone · Tabula Rasa · Fratres · Da pacem Domine · Swansong · Credo |
| 19 October, Sunday Zürich Tonhalle |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi Soloists: Midori and Hans Christian Aavik (violin) Arvo Pärt: Collage über B-A-C-H · Swansong · Tabula Rasa · Perpetuum mobile · Summa · Fratres · Passacaglia · La Sindone · Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten |
| 20 October, Monday Hamburg Elbphilharmonie |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi Soloists: Midori and Hans Christian Aavik (violin) Arvo Pärt: Collage über B-A-C-H · Swansong · Perpetuum mobile · La Sindone · Tabula Rasa · Da pacem Domine |
| 23 October, Thursday New York Carnegie Hall |
| Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Tõnu Kaljuste Soloists: Midori and Hans Christian Aavik (violin) Nicol Muhly (piano) Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten · Perpetuum mobile · La Sindone · Adam’s Lament · Tabula Rasa · Fratres · Swansong · Credo |
PAAVO JÄRVI – CREDO – ARVO PÄRT 90 – CD release and tour.
