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09.09

Tallinn, St. John's Church, 7 p.m.

ARVO PÄRT'S DAYS: SARAH WAS NINETY YEARS OLD

Music from year 1976

Arvo Pärt

Trivium
Pari intervallo
Für Alina
An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten
Sarah Was Ninety Years Old

YXUS Ensemble:
Maria Valdmaa (soprano)
Iris Oja (alto)
Endrik Üksvärav (tenor)
Tõnis Kaumann (baritone)
Ulla Krigul (organ, piano)
Lauri Ahone (percussion)

The YXUS Ensemble that has grown out from the former NYYD Ensemble and started last year will perform the pieces from the legendary concert programme of Hortus Musicus presented on 27 October 1976 in Estonia Concert Hall. That was the first time the audience heard the word of the title 'tintinnabuli'. The musical works were on that occasion performed with antique old instruments and marked the beginning of Arvo Pärt's new creative style, becoming the pillars of the composer's tintinnabuli music.

The soloist is soprano Maria Valdmaa who has acquired master's degree of baroque song in the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. She also participated in last year's Nargenfestival as one of the main characters in the opera about Bernhard Schmidt 'An enlightened disciple of darkness'.