Paavo Järvi/Estonian Festival Orchestra
Pärnu Music Festival, 21st July 2019
“Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Sow the Wind, Mussorgsky’s Songs of Dances of Death and Tchaikovsky 2… this is not good box office!” admitted Paavo Järvi at the reception following the final concert of the Pärnu Music Festival. There’s a ring of truth to this. Most orchestral managers would shudder in the face of such a programme, but box office considerations and pandering to sponsors are far from Järvi’s mind in his Pärnu planning. Yet the concert hall, regardless of the programme, was packed for the Estonian Festival Orchestra’s finale and the audience was rewarded with terrific performances.
Paavo Järvi, Ain Anger and the Estonian Festival Orchestra
© Taavi Kull
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