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Nordic Swans Nordic Swans Baltic Sea Philharmonic Tour 2021 Nordic The swan is a majestic bird cherished in Nordic culture, and tonight we bring you swan-inspired music Let uswe take perform you on every a flight piece of fromimagination, memory, as to create a unique concert experience. and with choreography, lighting and sound design, Swans Arvo Pärt (1935) Swansong 3 September 2021, 8.30pm 11 September 2021, 8pm Merano Music Festival, Kurhaus, Usedom Music Festival, Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) Merano (Italy) Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde/ Island of Usedom (Germany) The Swan of Tuonela 4 September 2021, 8pm Music festival ‘Il Settembre dell’Accademia’, 12 September 2021, 5pm Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) Teatro Filarmonico, Verona (Italy) Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, Szczecin (Poland) Swan Lake 6 September 2021, 7pm Dramatic symphony arranged Festival Ljubljana, Congress Square, by Kristjan Järvi Ljubljana (Slovenia) first edition of the score: ‘Tuonela, the land half-white concert outfits subtly combine to of death, the hell of Finnish mythology, is conjure an impression of swans dancing surrounded by a large river of black waters and moving on dark water. Dynamic lighting and a rapid current, in which The Swan of design adds to the vivid atmosphere, and Tuonela glides majestically, singing.’ the performance features elegantly crafted digital sound effects created live on stage The world’s most popular music on by a keyboards player and off stage by a Inside the theme of swans is undoubtedly sound designer. With this multisensory, Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake, which multidimensional experience, we aim to take Discoverof tonight’sthe themes programme and stories was premiered in 1877 at the Moscow audiences on an exhilarating adventure to Bolshoi Theatre. Tchaikovsky’s dreaming the North. prince Siegfried falls in love with the the music enchanted Swan Queen, Odette, who ‘Nordic Swans’ will next take flight again in glides over a magical lake together with her 2022, with concerts at the Queen Elisabeth companions. Her rival Odile, known as the Hall in Antwerp on 23 March and at the We are delighted to present our new concert Our concert opens with Arvo Pärt’s ‘Black Swan’, gives the tale its tragic turn, Berlin Philharmonie on 24 March. We hope experience ‘Nordic Swans’. After 12 long contemplative, hymn-like orchestral piece but true love ultimately triumphs over death. to see you there! months away from the stage, it is a huge thrill Swansong, which is based on an earlier The Baltic Sea Philharmonic performs Swan to be touring Europe once again. Tonight we choral composition, Littlemore Tractus Lake as a dramatic symphony arranged perform a new programme inspired by one (2000), in which Pärt set a text by the by Kristjan Järvi, who says his aim was to of nature’s noblest creatures – the swan. influential English theologian Cardinal John ‘highlight the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s epic Featuring music by Arvo Pärt, Sibelius and Henry Newman. The piece exemplifies the work’. His arrangement combines famous Tchaikovsky, ‘Nordic Swans’ celebrates these Estonian composer’s ‘holy minimalism’, melodies with some less familiar sections majestic birds that are often visible on the a style of musical expression far removed of the original ballet score. For the Romantics, Baltic coast, especially at sunset. For the from the neo-classical and avant-garde the swan was a Romantics, the swan was a symbol of loyalty, works of his early output. A new kind of concert experience purity and elegance. A swan draws the hero’s ‘Nordic Swans’ marks not just a return symbol of loyalty, purity boat in Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. It appears The Swan of Tuonela is the most well to live performance for the Baltic Sea and elegance in the Finnish national poetry epic Kalevala known of Sibelius’s Four Legends from the Philharmonic, but is also a new showcase and in medieval German verse romances Kalevala, also known as the Lemminkäinen for our transformation of the classical about the knight Parzival. Kristjan Järvi says: Suite (1895). The Legends describe concert experience. We perform the entire ‘Swans are creatures of great purity and various adventures of the young hero programme from memory, with most of the beauty, and all the Nordic countries have Lemminkäinen, and The Swan of Tuonela musicians standing up and able to move them in their culture, which is why we’re depicts the sacred creature he had been freely on the stage. Specially devised focusing the repertoire in this way.’ tasked to kill. Sibelius wrote at the top of the choreography and bespoke half-black and The idea that anything is possible is not just feel as if they are suddenly entering a new a touchstone for the Baltic Sea Philharmonic dimension.’ This same invitation to a world of players. It also encapsulates Kristjan’s vision possibilities is extended with ‘Nordic Swans’. for the concert experience, which becomes Kristjan says: ‘The swan is not just a Nordic a thrillingly immersive spectacle of music, symbol. It is also the symbol of a majestic lighting design, digital soundscapes and video feeling of infinity. This is what I try to instill in projections. ‘I want to create transformational people with everything that I do – to think with Nordic environments,’ he says. ‘The audience should a sense of the infinite.’ Kristjan has ‘earned a reputation as one of the canniest, and most innovative, programmers on the classical scene’ Reuters Biography concepts. At the end of 2020 As a recording artist Kristjan pioneer Using the power of music he founded nEscapes, a new has more than 60 albums to to create spaces in which record label which, besides his credit, from Hollywood anything is possible, Kristjan online music distribution, offers soundtracks such as Cloud Kristjan Järvi’s pursues his pioneering ideas its own unique ‘nEscapes Atlas and award-winning unstoppable vision as a conductor, producer, Lounges’ to artists as a new albums on Sony Classical and composer and arranger. He listening format. Chandos to his eponymous developed his own unique series the Kristjan Järvi Sound sound with his New York-based As a conductor, Kristjan is at Project, which launched in Creative freedom, risk-taking and innovation Kristjan has instilled in the Baltic Sea classical-hip-hop-jazz group home on the big international 2014. Nordic Escapes, his are at the heart of Kristjan Järvi’s work with Philharmonic musicians a collective spirit Absolute Ensemble, the Baltic stages, directing great classics debut album as composer and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic. ‘We are building of self-discovery. He encourages their Sea Philharmonic, and ‘Nordic from Wagner to Tchaikovsky, producer for BMG’s Modern a new orchestral model,’ he says. ‘As passion and potential in areas such as Pulse’, the in-house ensemble and contemporary icons from Recordings was released orchestras, we have to ask ourselves what we memorisation, digital production and of his production company, Steve Reich to Radiohead, as in 2020. are here for. It must be to create, uplift, inspire music creation. And he nurtures their Sunbeam Productions. well as his original productions. and innovate. And you cannot have innovation leadership skills, guiding a team of section He collaborates with some Born in Estonia, Kristjan without taking risks. Everything we’re doing leaders and senior musicians. ‘What we Together with his Sunbeam of today’s brightest creative emigrated to the United States with the Baltic Sea Philharmonic – from playing are doing with the orchestra,’ he says, ‘is team, Kristjan creates new minds, from film director Tom as a child and grew up in by heart to performing with lights and sound a constant process of opening musicians experiences that combine Tykwer to composers and New York City. Since 2015 design – is about making that creative leap, and up to possibilities, so they discover what music, visual art, lighting design performers Max Richter, Robot he has lived in the Estonian hopefully inspiring others through our example.’ lies within.’ and technology with innovative Koch, Hauschka and Bastille. capital, Tallinn. Oboe Piano Viktoria Kassel (Germany) Gabrielė Bekerytė (Lithuania) Victor Sjögren (Sweden) Percussion Clarinet Marnisch Haderlein-Ebner (Germany) Alexey Mikhaylenko (Russia) Pietari Huhtinen (Finland) Our Fátima Trives Escolano (Spain/Denmark) Pablo Navarro Diaz (Spain/Germany) Aikaterini Koskina (Greece/Germany) Bassoon Íñigo Aramburu Arnáiz (Spain/Germany) Coach Arseniy Shkaptsov (Russia) Marzena Malinowska (Poland) The Baltic Sea Philharmonic is a community French Horn Team Baltic Sea Music musicians Ingrid Aukner (Norway) Education Foundation of musicians from all over the world. All our musicians Javier Calvo Gutiérrez (Spain/Germany) Thomas Hummel (Executive Director) share strong ties with the Nordic region, as they were Nikita Iankovskii (Russia) Jutta Loosen (Communications Director) or they study or work in one of these countries Mikus Runka (Latvia) Joanna Wilde (Senior Production Manager) either born in one of the ten countries around the Baltic Sea Rita Sosedow (Production Manager) Trumpet Katharina Wickel (Communications Manager) Josep Gómez Alemany (Spain/Germany) Danielle Griffin (Music Librarian) Violin Cello Laur Keller (Estonia) Alexander Datz (Press Officer) Romualda Błoch (Poland) Lydia Eriksson (Finland) Emilia Suchlich (Germany) Anna Müller (Project Assistant) Ilze Gagaine (Latvia) Adam Garnecki (Poland) Grácio Z. Vieira Silva (Brazil/Finland) Maya Oppitz (Project Assistant)
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