All Souls' Day Concert 2025

Tallinn St. John s Church, Viljandi Baptist Church, Tartu St. Paul's Church
Concert

October 31, 2025 at 19.00 at the Viljandi Baptist Church
November 1, 2025 at 19.00 at St. John’s Church in Tallinn
November 2, 2025 at 16.00 at St. Paul’s Church in Tartu

The Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra presents a programme that bridges the musical languages and emotions of different eras. Contemporary Ukrainian works, like Victoria Poleva’s meditative and painfully beautiful “Bucha. Lacrimosa” (2022) and Myroslav Skoryk’s deeply expressive “Diptych” (1993), are heard alongside the poetic beauty of 19th-century opera and turn-of-the-century impressionism in the music of Ravel.

Barber’s “Adagio” and Delibes’s aria filled with sorrow, together with the gentle prayers of Verdi and Rombi, form a musical bridge from tragedy and mourning towards light and peace – revealing music’s power to heal, to comfort, and to reconnect us with hope and joy.

Programme:
Victoria Poleva – “Bucha. Lacrimosa” (Estonian premiere)
Léo Delibes – Lakmé, Act III: Berceuse
Myroslav Skoryk – “Diptych”
Giuseppe Verdi – Otello, Act IV: Desdemona “Ave Maria, piena di grazia”
Samuel Barber – “Adagio”
Philippe Rombi – “Ave Maria”
Maurice Ravel – “Le Tombeau de Couperin”
Léo Delibes – Lakmé, Duet “Dôme épais”