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Estonian Festival Orchestra
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Estonian Festival Orchestra — Europe 2018

Tour to Europe

Conductor Paavo Järvi 

Soloist Viktoria Mullova

January 2018

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Cities

Tallinn Estonia

Tallinn

Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Symphonie No.9 ​“Mythos”
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor 

Brussels, Belgium

Bruxelles

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Erkki-Sven Tüür: Symphonie No.9 ​“Mythos”
Arvo Pärt: Fratres (version for orchestra and percussion)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Paavo Järvi, conductor  

Zurich, Switzerland

Zürich

Tonhalle, Zürich

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Arvo Pärt: Fratres (version for orchestra and percussion)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor 

Koln

Köln

Philharmonie, Köln

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor 

Berlin

Philharmonie, Berlin

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor 

Vienna, Austria

Vienna

Konzerhaus, Vienna

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Arvo Pärt: Fratres (version for orchestra and percussion)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor 

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Luxembourg

Philharmonie, Luxembourg

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonie No.6
Viktoria Mullova, violin
Paavo Järvi, conductor  

About the tour

After a successful first tour in Scandanavia in August 2017, Estonian Festival Orchestra will spread its wings further afield with concerts planned in major European cities, including Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Luxembourg.

This tour, which also celebrates the 100th anniversary of Estonian Independence, will include a new orchestral work by Estonian Composer, Erkki-Sven Tuur, which will recieve its international premiere in Brussels on 18th January

Paavo Jarvi

“For the first time ever Paavo Järvi has been showing other nations why the Estonian Festival Orchestra is among the world’s best — top players burning for a conductor they love and respect”

theartsdesk, August 2017
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7 Countries, 12 Days, 4,238km

“begging comparison with the elasticity of Abbado’s concerts with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which is as good as it can get”

The Arts Desk

“This is highly concentrated music making where all the details are worked out: the ping pong of accents between violins and horns, antiphons between the woodwind groups, targeted focus curves in the second violins. Nothing is sweeping, nothing sleepy and nothing washed away.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“There isn’t a hint of a hothouse environment on stage – these are simply musicians having the time of their lives, no small thanks to the inspiring Paavo Järvi himself.”

BBC Music Magazine