Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir – Arvo Pärt & JS Bach

Richard Tognetti opens ACO’s 2019 Season with a program that will reach celestial heights. The famed Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir joins them in a celebration of Bach and Arvo Pärt. Ethereal and otherworldly, this is music by two towering composers searching for the very core of human meaning.

Bach’s sublime Lutheran motets interleave with Pärt’s mystical explorations of the Orthodox faith, before reaching the climax of the program: Pärt’s Berliner Messe. Fellow Estonian Galina Grigorjeva’s In Paradisum, with its joyous call on the angels to lead souls into heaven, leads their own program into paradise, while Peter Sculthorpe’s Djilile, inspired by Indigenous song, makes a resonant Australian introduction to Pärt’s luminous Messe.

Artists
Richard Tognetti Director
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Australian Chamber Orchestra

Program
Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine
Bach Komm, Jesu, komm
Arvo Pärt Summa
Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Arvo Pärt Toccata from Collage on B-A-C-H
Bach Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Bach Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
Galina Grigorjeva In Paradisum
Sculthorpe Djilile
Arvo Pärt Berliner Messe

Presented by Australian Chamber Orchestra & Perth Festival.