Arvo Pärt Days in Laulasmaa: Old Town Educational College String Orchestra

The string orchestra composed of young musicians of the Old Town Educational College under the direction of conductor Rasmus Puur is another young guest of the Nargenfestival, participating in the festival for the second time, alongside the professional Estonian and foreign ensembles. This year, the youth orchestra together with the brilliant soprano Maria Listra will bring the works of the great figures of the English Renaissance and Baroque era to the music of Arvo Pärt in four concerts across Estonia.

Programme:

Arvo Pärt
– “L’abbé Agathon”
– “Silouan’s Song”
– “Cantus for memory of Benjamin Britten”
– “Vater unser”
– “My Heart’s in the Highlands”

Henry Purcell
– Dido’s lament from “Dido and Aeneas”

John Dowland / Tõnu Kõrvits
– “Flow, my tears”

Georg Friedrich Händel
– “Lascia ch’io pianga” ooperist “Rinaldo”

John Eccles
– Aire V for the play “The Mad Lover”

Thomas Tallis
– “If ye love me”

William Byrd
– “Sing joyfully unto God”