From August 17 to 19, Pühalepa Music Festival will take place for the first time on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia. Concerts at Pühalepa church present early music as well as works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, who was born on Hiiumaa.
Festival opens with Baroque evening on August 17 featuring ensemble “focus baroque” (Iren Lill from Estonia – harpsichord; and Holger Faust-Peters from Germany - viola da gamba). Also Endrik Üksvärav (tenor) will appear on the stage.
On August 18 at 3 pm, Johann Hermann Schein‘s (1586–1630) Israelis Brünnlein can be listened under the direction of Dutch conductor Jos van Veldhoven. Work will be brought first time to the Estonian audience by festival choir, Tõnu Jõesaar (viola da gamba), Robert Staak (theorb) and Ene Salumäe (organ). Saturday evening at 6 pm, Erkki-Sven Tüür’s composer recital presents his instrumental music, perfomers are young and talented musicians Johan Randvere (piano), Theodor Sink (cello), Kaia Voitka (violin), Margus Parind (clarinet).
Festival will end with a concert of Pühalepa congregation’s female choir Anna on August 19 at 3 pm.
The second performance of J.H. Schein‘s Israelis Brünnlein is going to be on August 19 at 3 pm in Tallinn St. John’s Church, which can be listened also via Klassikaraadio on the same day at 7.05 pm.
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