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Christmas
music festival:
"Church
Holidays in the Land of Mary" 2019
30th of November
2019 - 6th of
January
2020
EFFE
Label 2017-2018 by European Festivals Association
Miraculous
Christmas time filled with beautiful music in churches and music
lounges all over Estonia!
Once
again Corelli Music delights the audience with the Christmas Music
Festival "Church Holidays in the Land of Mary" which brings
musical experiences throughout the whole holiday period. Praised by
the audience the festival has been credited with the quality label
"EFFE Label 2017-2018" by European Festivals Association. The
patron of the festival is the president
of Estonian Council of Churches, Bishop Emeritus Andres Põder.
OPENING CONCERT. First week of
Advent
Sat,
30th of November 2019 at 18 in
Mary
Magdalene Church,
Rapla
Declearing
the Christmas peace of the parish, concert and lighting the advent
candles on the Christmas tree of the city,
free entry.
Sun,
1st of December
2019 at
18 in St Charles'
Church,
Tallinn
No
ticket,
entrance
with the free donation to support the festival.
Brilliant
and festive music for the beginning of Christmas awaiting
- Chorale preludes by
Bach,
Eben's
compositions for organ
and trumpet,
fashionably ardent pieces by Stamm
etc.
"Organ
- the king of the instruments"
Indrek
Vau
(trumpet),
Piret
Aidulo
(organ)
A
concert with a poetic title "Vox Angelorum" is dedicated to
organ as an instrument which resounds in almost every church in the
land of Mary. Beautiful sounds of trumpet will add the holidayspark
to the grand sonance of organ. Audience can enjoy the oeuvres by
great composers from Bach until modern times. The historical organ in
Rapla church and lately renovated concert organ in St. Charles'
church allow to play very diversely beautiful music which alongside
the sounds of trumpet create a unique harmonic entirety.
AWAITING CHRISTMAS. Third week
of Advent
Sat,
14th of December 2019 at 18 in Kellerteater, Tallinn
Sun,
15th of December 2019 at 18.in Kernu manor, Harju county
Candlelit
holiday evenings in the most beautiful venues are back this year!
"Christmas
and love"
Ka
Bo Chan (countertenor)
and Baroque ensemble Corelli
Consort on period
instruments: Mail
Sildos (baroque
violin), Tõnu Jõesaar
(viola
da gamba), Robert
Staak (theorb/lute)
Christmas
and love, the hearty program contains canorous Christmas music and
touching love songs by masters of the baroque era. All of it is
performed by a little mystical voice countertenor accompanied by
mild-sounded baroque instruments.
This
elegant concert offers wonderful music by Bach, Handel, Gluck,
Vivaldi etc.
Love
can be divine as well as earthly, it can bring you supreme joys, but
also biggest sorrows. Brimful of all these feelings and emotions,
music selected to these concerts will sound in the historical
gunpowder cellar, Kellerteater on the edge of the Tallinn old town
and in excellently renovated Kernu manor.
MAGNIFICAT
and
MESSIAH.
Traditional
year-end concerts
Sat,
28th of December
2019 at
19 in St. John's
Church, Tartu
Sun,
29th of December
2019 at
19 in St. John's
Church, Tallinn
Beautifully dazzling Christmas
concerts under the historical church vaults.
Telemann, Corrette, Vivaldi, Charpentier - several
compositions by masters of baroque era will be performed for the
first time in Estonia!
„Magnificat.
Messiah. The Four Seasons"
Soloists: ILZE GRĒVELE-SKARAINE (soprano, Latvia), MONTA
MARTINSONE (soprano, Latvia), IVO POSTI (countertenor, Estonia), ANSIS
BĒTIŅŠ (tenor, Latvia), EDGARS SKARBULIS (basso, Latvia)
Baroque-choir
COLLEGIUM CHORO MUSICI RIGA,
CORELLI BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
on period
instruments.
Conductor MĀRIS KUPČS
(Latvia)
The first collaboration of
Estonian concert agency
Corelli Music ja Latvian
Early Music Center allows the audience to enjoy an extremely exciting
program full of less known music by masters of baroque era. Everyone
knows Handel's "Messiah" and Vivaldi's " The four seasons"
but this concerts offers you new flavors to enjoy. Top musicians from
Tallinna and Riga will perform the 2nd part of "Messiah" by
Telemann, Frenchly dazzling suite „Noëls sur les instruments"
by Charpentier and Corrette's oeuvre "Laudate Dominum" for
the soloists, choir and orchestra which bases largely on Vivaldi's
cycle "The four seasons". Only the opening piece of the concert -
Vivaldi's "Magnificat", has been played in Estonia before.
FINAL
CONCERT. Ephiphany.
Mon,
6th of January
2020 at
19 in Keila-Joa castles
Schloss Fall, Harju
county
Exclusively festive concert to
welcome new year and Orthodox Christmas.
„The
magical world of the romance"
Iris Oja
(mezzo-soprano)
and Kadri-Ann
Sumera
(piano)
In the historical manor hall,
side by side Estonian and Russian delightful romance music will
glitter. Marvellous soloists offer for your enjoyment a diverse
program by such composers as Mart
Saar, Sergei Rachmaninoff
and
others to revive
the festive spirit of former times.
Enjoy the style and elegance of
former times and todays brilliant musicians!
More information: www.corelli.ee
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