VOLMER AND FAUST

14.10.22 at 19:00 - Estonia Concert Hall
Eduard Tubin, Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms
ISABELLE FAUST violin, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conductor ARVO VOLMER

Programme

Eduard Tubin
Symphony No. 11    ~10’

Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2    ~40’

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2    ~45’

Arvo Volmer, the former principal conductor of ERSO, will perform with ERSO Symphony No. 11, the last (unfinished) symphony by Tubin, and Symphony No. 2 by Brahms. Prominent violinist Isabelle Faust will solo in Violin Concerto No. 2 by Bartók. She has performed with some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world and won numerous awards for her recordings. This season, Faust is the artist in residence of the Musikverein Vienna, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and Münchner Konzertdirektion Hörtnagel.

Arvo Volmer has been working with ERSO for years. They first performed together at the end of 1987 when the young conductor was still studying at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1993, Volmer became the principal conductor of ERSO, focusing on the performance and recording of the symphonic music by Eduard Tubin. The concert programme includes Symphony No. 11, which ERSO has only performed with Volmer in 1988, 1990, 1996, and most recently in 2002.

Concert organiser ERSO