Audio Spa at Taru

PROGRAMME 

JacobTV (Jacob ter Veldhuis)
The Garden of Love

Luciano Berio
Opus Number Zoo

John Eriksson
Träd

Steve Reich
Nagoya Marimbas

Steve Reich / Vambola Krigul
Vermont Counterpoint

Mason Bates
Life of Birds

Mirjam Tally
The Birds for Company

PERFORMERS

ERSO chamber ensembles

DESCRIPTION

The choice of Loodusmaja Taru as the concert venue has also inspired the programme: ERSO chamber musicians take the audience on a journey into the world of nature sounds. The evening opens with The Garden of Love, an oboe piece by Dutch composer JacobTV, based on William Blake’s dreamlike poem. In Luciano Berio’s playful and witty wind quintet Opus Number Zoo, the performers not only play music but also tell stories. John Eriksson’s marimba piece Träd, for four performers, is rooted in suggestive music built on repetition. Hypnotic sound patterns are created in Steve Reich’s minimalist marimba works Nagoya Marimbas and Vermont Counterpoint. Mason Bates’s Life of Birds, for four instruments, evokes the movements and calls of birds. In Mirjam Tally’s airy work The Birds for Company, the cello conjures a fantastical soundscape of primordial and cyber birds.

ERSO TV broadcasts are produced in cooperation with Klassikaraadio and Helipilt Grupp OÜ.

ERSO thanks Tammo Sumera, Mait Visnapuu, Priit Perend, Eva-Liisa Heinmaa.