OPENING CONCERT OF THE SEASON

15.09.23 at 18:00 - Estonia kontserdisaal (eelkontsert)
15.09.23 at 19:00 - Estonia Concert Hall
Tõnu Kõrvits, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
HANS CHRISTIAN AAVIK violin, ERSO, conductor OLARI ELTS

Programme

The concert series Amadeus is supported by RADISSON COLLECTION HOTEL TALLINN

6 p.m. – pre-concert

Michael Nyman. In Re Don Giovanni for string quintet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K.515. I movement

Performers Marta Spārniņa, Kaido Välja, Rain Vilu, Kaija Lukas, Indrek Leivategija and Mati Lukk. Olari Elts will speak about the upcoming concert season.

7 p.m. – symphony concert

Tõnu Kõrvits
Tuultele (premiere)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major K. 551

ERSO’s new concert series Amadeus will begin with the opening concert of ERSO’s 97th season. This brand-new concert series is a homage to the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The evening will be opened by Tõnu Kõrvits’s new work for brass orchestra and percussion instruments. The two movements of the work each open one half of the concert, serving as an introduction to the classical repertoire.

Mozart’s last and most complex symphony, Symphony No. 41, also known as Jupiter, will be performed at this concert. The soloist of the concert will be the young and outstanding Estonian violinist Hans Christian Aavik, who also worked with the ERSO last season. At the Christmas concert in 2022, he performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and this time, he will be performing an excerpt from another Viennese classic, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the first monumental work in its genre and the forerunner for later Romantic violin concertos.

Concert organiser ERSO