Baltic Sea Festival
Thu, 29 Aug
|Berwaldhallen
In this concert, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra evokes memories and a melancholy mood. The orchestra will perform Terra Memoria by the late Kaija Saariaho, “dedicated to those who have left us”. Music by Arvo Pärt includes Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten. Alisson Kruusmaa, whose music is often described as mild, delicate and contemplative, has contributed a new composition. There is also room on stage for jumping joy, for example when Yena Choi sings arias by Haydn’s pupil Marianna Martines on the subject of first love.
Time and place
29 Aug 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, 115 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Info
Yena Choi (soprano)
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
conductor Tõnu Kaljuste
Ester Mägi - "Vesper"
Kaija Saariaho - "Terra Memoria"
Alisson Kruusmaa - "And If I Had a Dream"
Marianna Martines - "Il primo amore"
Heino Eller - "Kodumaine viis"
Arvo Pärt - "Greater Antiphons"
Erkki-Sven Tüür - "Deep Dark Shine"
Arvo Pärt - "Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten"