Glasperlenspiel Music Festival
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The annual Glasperlenspiel Music Festival (Glass Bead Game Festival) is a joint project of Eesti Kontsert and Estonian Record Productions
since 1995. It is a leading musical event in the Estonia
n summer.
Peeter Vähi, a composer and music producer, is the artistic director of the festival.
The Glasperlenspiel Festival is inspired by Herman Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game
, and its content is intended to present music from unusual angles, occasionally tied to a literary, religious, philosophical, esthetical or some other theme. Recent offerings include Nietzsche contra Wagner, Mozart & Salieri, Jungle Book of Baroque, Carmina Burana Speciale, Da Vinci Code, End of the Era of Composers, Music for Glass Harmonica, and Freemasonic Music.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Absolute Ensemble, Kremerata Baltica, Roy Goodman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Vadim Repin, Piotr Anderszewski, Gidon Kremer, Olli Mustonen, as well as most leading Estonian musicians (the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Opera, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Male Choir RAM, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Early Music Consort "Hortus Musicus", NYYD Ensemble, Eri Klas, Järvi "dynasty", Olari Elts, Tõnu Kaljuste) have performed at Glasperlenspiel.
Estonian Record Productions
Estonian Record Productions is an Estonian music production company, founded on March 1, 2001. The main activity was initially record production, and the company has now branched out to produce music festivals and concerts, act as artist management, publish music, and offers notation and...
since 1995. It is a leading musical event in the Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
n summer.
Peeter Vähi, a composer and music producer, is the artistic director of the festival.
The Glasperlenspiel Festival is inspired by Herman Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game is the last full-length novel and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, after being rejected for publication in Germany, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature."Glass Bead...
, and its content is intended to present music from unusual angles, occasionally tied to a literary, religious, philosophical, esthetical or some other theme. Recent offerings include Nietzsche contra Wagner, Mozart & Salieri, Jungle Book of Baroque, Carmina Burana Speciale, Da Vinci Code, End of the Era of Composers, Music for Glass Harmonica, and Freemasonic Music.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Absolute Ensemble, Kremerata Baltica, Roy Goodman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Vadim Repin, Piotr Anderszewski, Gidon Kremer, Olli Mustonen, as well as most leading Estonian musicians (the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian National Opera, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Male Choir RAM, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Early Music Consort "Hortus Musicus", NYYD Ensemble, Eri Klas, Järvi "dynasty", Olari Elts, Tõnu Kaljuste) have performed at Glasperlenspiel.