3rd concert in the HARMONY series
4th concert in the PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY festival

Sven Helbig
Pocket Symphonies

Richard Wagner / Henk de Vlieger
The Ring, An Orchestral Adventure

SVEN HELBIG electronics

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor KRISTJAN JÄRVI

The German composer and musical philosopher Richard Wagner was one of the greatest innovators of the music theatre. His creative activity culminated with the development of a completely new synthesis of music and drama, the Gesamtkunstwerk. He first applied his innovative ideas in his large-scale tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung.

Wagner’s idea of the synergy of music, text, dramaturgy and theatrical scenery, costumes and light and their combined influence on the viewer has also inspired the work of the modern German composer, producer and arranger, Sven Helbig. An author of grandiose music videos, stage shows and theatrical multimedia productions, Helbig has collaborated with Rammstein, Pet Shop Boys, Polarkreis 18, the American rapper Snoop Dogg and the German rapper Sido, as well as the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Fauré Quartet, the opera singer René Pape and many others.

Instead of a traditional end of season concert, ENSO will end its concert season with an end of season festival, which demonstrates the ability of a symphony orchestra to bring together music and musicians more broadly than allowed by the usual format of concerts on Friday evenings. The initial concept for “Practical Spirituality”, a festival produced by ENSO and Kristjan Järvi, was the search for meaning and transcendence in music, and the idea of music as a means for perceiving religion, cosmic vibrations and harmony. A festival of the same name was already held in June 2017 in Leipzig, with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra as the main partner to Kristjan Järvi, the leader of the festival.

Kristjan Järvi has been described by the French website dedicated to classical music and dance, ResMusica, as “a generous musician without blinkers and boundaries, the archetype of an artist in the 21st century”. He has gained recognition on the world stages of classical music as “one of the canniest, and most innovative, programmers of the classical scene” (Reuters). Curating and conducting his original, genre-fusing projects with individual approach and style, his concerts have been proclaimed a “life-enhancing experience.” (Herald Scotland). To realise his pioneering ideas, Kristjan Järvi has creative outlets all over the world: he is the principal conductor of the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, the founder-conductor of his New York based classical-hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble, and the founder and conductor of the Baltic Sea Philharmonic. He works as a guest conductor with orchestras all over the world: the London Symphony Orchestra, French National Orchestra, Paris Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, Minnesota Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra in Japan among many others. As a recording artist, Järvi has more than 60 albums to his credit, from Hollywood soundtracks and award-winning albums by Sony Classical and Chandos, to his eponymous series – the “Kristjan Järvi Sound Project” – under the prestigious French record label Naïve Classique.

Tickets: 22 € / 16 €
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Concert is produced by ENSO