Review Highlights

“Paavo Järvi brings together his Estonian Festival Orchestra which he composes ad hoc, of handpicked musicians. Immediately sensitive, the complicity between instrumentalist and conductor allowed a remarkable economy of rehearsals and injected the concert with a truly breathtaking energy and virtuosity.”
Diapason, France

“Here there are no egos, but truly passionate people in making and listening to the best music.”
El Pais, Spain

“… This is highly concentrated music making, where all the details are worked out: the ping pong of accents between violins and horns, antiphons between the woodwind groups, targeted focus curves in the second violins. Nothing is sweeping, nothing sleepy and nothing washed away.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

“Above all there is the Estonian Festival Orchestra, the backbone of this music week and which has long proved itself internationally on tour! The latest, great baby of the great educator Paavo Järvi … And year after year you can see and hear the artists evolve, open up, listen to each other.”
Die Welt, Germany

“The orchestra is making international waves – including an impressive debut at the BBC Proms last summer – but to hear them on their own turf in front of its adoring home audience gave the perfect introduction to this festival’s ethos.”
Bachtrack.com, UK

“… the festival orchestra has a very special tone. It is dark, homogeneously mixed and slender, but when it comes down to it, it also unfolds a deep inner glow.
Hamburger Abendblatt, Germany

“Paavo Järvi seems to effortlessly combine the musicians into a body of sound that does not reveal its (individual) composition, with a level of agility as well as the ability to perform with powerful eruptions.”
Berliner Zeitung, Germany

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