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This year’s contemporary music festival in Wales takes place from September 5 to 11 and focuses on Arvo Pärt’s music. The top event of Vale of Glamorgan Festival is world premiere of Arvo Pärt’s In Spe (2010) on September 9 at 7 pm at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Work commissioned by festival is scored for wind quintet and symphony orchestra and will be performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Tõnu Kaljuste. |
Concert dedicated to the 75th birthday of Arvo Pärt will take place in the presence of composer. From amongst Pärt’s works, concert program includes also Symphony No. 4 Los Angeles and Cecilia, vergine romana, performed together with Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. In addition, American composer Arlene Sierra’s Piano Concerto Art of War (soloist Huw Watkins) will be premiered. The recording of the concert can be listened from BBC Radio 3 on October 2.
Festival will be opened with concerts of ensemble Resonabilis on September 5 and 6. From amongst Pärt’s music, programs in these evenings include Pari intervallo (arrangement for solo harp) and Für Alina (arrangement for solo kannel). Concert also features Siân Cameron (mezzo soprano), Ruth Wall (harp), Rhodri Davies (harp), Philip Gross (poet) and Tui Hirv (voice).
On September 7 at 7.30 pm, concert of Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir will begin in Penarth St. Augustine’s Church, where Arvo Pärt’s large-scale choral work Kanon Pokajanen will be presented. Work is dedicated to Tõnu Kaljuste and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor is Daniel Reuss. Within the framework of Walestonia 2010 – cultural bridge of Estonia and Wales – choir will give more concerts in Wales: on September 4 in St. David’s Cathedral, September 5 in Caernarfon Galeri and September 6 in Lampeter St. Peter’s Church. Program consists of choral music by Pärt, Cyrillus Kreek, Jean Sibelius and Felix Medelssohn.
In the concert of Amsterdam Cello Octet on September 8 at 7.30 in St. Donat’s Castle, Pärt’s Psalom, Missa brevis, Da pacem Domine and O-Antiphonen will get their UK premiere. Octet plays also pieces by Terry Riley and Fant de Kanter.
On September 10 in Acapela recording studio in Pentyrch, vocal ensembel juice performs beside songs by Gavin Bryars and Meredith Monk also music by Veljo Tormis.
Final concert on September 11 at 7.30 pm in Ewenny Priory Church belongs to RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet. Program consists of Pärt’s Summa and Stabat mater, Galina Grigorjeva’s Ad infinitum and Deirdre Gribbin’s Merrow Sang. Also vocal soloists Patricia Rozario (soprano), Patrick Craig (counter-tenor) and Nicholas Todd (tenor) will appear on the stage.
More info: http://valeofglamorganfestival.org.uk/
Mariliis Valkonen