ARVO PÄRT 90 & TIGRAN MANSURIAN

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…).

When on sale?

You can buy the concert on its own or as part of the “CREATE YOUR OWN” season subscription from 9 June 2025 (8am) when non-renewed subscriptions are released.

The concert can be purchased as a part of the SUBSCRIPTION (Filharmonie in the Theatre I) ONLINE from 29 April and at the Ticket Office of Filharmonie Brno since 12 May 2025.

SUBSCRIOPTION RENEWAL is possible immediately when confirmed by email about the reservation in the 70th season.

The discussion with the dramaturge and his guests will take place at 6 pm in the director’s lounge. Reservations are required at besedy@filharmonie-brno.cz by 12 noon on Wednesday of the week of the concert.