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Tom McKinney concludes a week of highlights from European summer festivals. We start at the seaside resort of Parnu on the Baltic Sea in Estonia for the closing concert of their 2019 festival. It opens with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven T眉眉r's 2015 exploration of climactic change, mass migration, extremist movements and 'other irreversible processes that increasingly weigh upon our minds and are, in many ways, consequences of reckless human activity'. The title comes from Hosea Chapter 8 verse 7: 'For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind'. Ain Anger grew up on the Estonian island Saaremaa and has been hailed by The Guardian as 鈥渙ne of the great Wagner basses of our time鈥�. He joins the festival orchestra for Mussorgsky's sombre Songs and Dances of Death, before they conclude the concert with Tchaikovsky's joyful Symphony No 2.
We round the week off with a trip to the 2020 Magic Summer Festival in Bucharest recorded just last month featuring Mahler's arrangement of Schubert's famous Death and the Maiden Quartet.

Erkki-Sven T眉眉r: Sow the Wind
Estonian Festival Orchestra
Paavo J盲rvi, conductor

Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Ain Anger, bass
Estonian Festival Orchestra
Paavo J盲rvi, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 17 ('Little Russian')
Estonian Festival Orchestra
Paavo J盲rvi, conductor

Schubert arr Mahler: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 ('Death and the Maiden')
Romanian Chamber Orchestra
Cristian M膬celaru, conductor