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• Do.

  06

  Nov.

  2025

  Arvo Pärt and Tigran Mansurjan

  19:00Besedni dum, Brno

  TIGRAN MANSURIAN
  Tagh No. 2 from the cycle Three Taghs for viola and percussion
  Orhnerg – Navapet Bari (Hymnus – The Good Captain) for baritone, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Brno Philharmonic and the Mendel Festival

  ARVO PÄRT
  Arbos for brass and percussion
  Wenn Bach Bienen Gezüchtet Hätte… (If Bach had kept bees…) for orchestra
  Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass) for choir and string orchestra

  Aksel Daveyan baritone
  Julian Veverica viola
  Lukáš Krejčí percussion
  Hard-Chor Linz
  choirmaster Alexander Koller
  Filharmonie Brno
  conductor Dennis Russell Davies

   

  Arvo Pärt 90
  Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, one of the most renowned, internationally famous and influential contemporary composers, celebrates his 90th birthday on 11 September. He has made his mark on the general public mainly through his meditative spiritual compositions composed using the technique called tintinnabuli (from the Latin tintinnabulum – bell), which he arrived at in the 1970s after a long period of searching and characterised as a “voluntary escape into poverty”. The tintinnabuli technique is also used in all the compositions with which the Brno Philharmonic in collaboration with the Linz Hard-Chor and under the baton of chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies will celebrate Pärt’s jubilee.

  Dennis Russell Davies on Arvo Pärt
  I owe the beginnings of my ever-deepening personal and musical relationship with Arvo Pärt to the pioneering spirit of Manfred Eicher, who first made Arvo Pärt’s music available to the world through his ECM recordings. From these early recordings, some of which I had the privilege of working on with ECM, Arvo Pärt’s creative thinking – alongside many changes in his personal life – evolved in a very dramatic way. It is one of the most important and most welcome aspects of contemporary musical life that Arvo Pärt has received worldwide respect and popularity.

   

  Tigran Mansurjan and Brno
  In January 2020, a memorable performance of Tigran Mansurjan’s Requiem took place at the Besední dům with the personal participation of the composer and under the baton of Alexander Liebreich. Impressed by the successful Czech premiere of this work (dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915), Mansurjan then decided to create an orchestral version of his quartet Agnus Dei for the Philharmonic. Mansurjan’s music was also heard at the Moravian Autumn 2021 (a viola concerto with the Faulknerian title …and then I was in time again…).