On January 17, the concert entitled Awakening of Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Reuss will feature Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Awakening for mixed choir and orchestra (2011). The concert will take place at Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn at 7 pm. The program also includes Transfigured Night (Verklärte Nacht), Op. 4 by Arnold Schönberg.

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Awakening by Erkki-Sven Tüür was written in 2011 in honour of Tallinn – European Capital of Culture. Tüür has used poetry by Juhan Liiv, Ernst Enno, Jaan Kaplinski and Doris Kareva along with Latin liturgical texts for Easter. Erkki-Sven Tüür: „Awakening like waking up from sleep, waking to a new life, the awakening of dulled senses to clarity, religious awakening, the wakening of nature in spring… this word has an extremely profound and extensive field of meaning. I believe that awakening can be viewed as a life-long process, contrary to falling asleep and fading away.“

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Photo: Jarek Jõepera

Arnold Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night which was composed for string sextet, later arranged for a string orchestra, is one of the most important from the composer’s juvenilia. The piece is inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name.

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