From February 12 to 15, in frame of the ECM festival „The Perfect Silence”, four concerts will be held in Tallinn Guild house of the Blackheads. The Festival brings to an Estonian audience new music as well as early music in a new interpretation among the others by Norwegian, Italian, Danish, Dutch and Estonian musicians and composers.

The festival begins on Thursday, February 12, with an evening called „A Door to the World, a Window to the Space” with works by Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Pärt, James MacMillan and Heino Eller, performed by Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. The second half of the evening will be filled with a short opera „Tuleaed” [Firegarden] by composer Tõnu Kõrvits and librettist Maarja Kangro, with Kädy Plaas and Helen Lokuta as soloists.

The concert of Friday titled „The New Breath of Ancient Music” brings onto stage the Norwegian lute player Rolf Lislevand and his ensemble. The program they will perform, called „Nuo­ve Musiche”, appeared three years ago as an ECM record with the same title. On Saturday, the new Norwegian jazz is played by one of the most renowned and unique jazz saxophone players Trygve Seim and his non-academically ensembled group, which includes besides saxophones and clarinets also a tuba, cello, accordion, bassoon and other instruments. The evening is called „Encounter of Three Music Rivers”.

The closing concert of the festival „The Beauty of Being There, on the Light of Dim Double Bass” will be held on Sunday, February 15. The Norwegian double bass virtuoso Arild Andersen and his trio with the percussionist Paolo Vinaccia and the sax player Tommy Smith will perform live their program „Live At Belleville”, which also has been published previously as a record of ECM.

The artistic director of the festival is composer Erkki-Sven Tüür.

Malle Maltis

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