Performers
Andrejs Osokins (piano, Latvia)
Description
Latvian classical pianist Andrejs Osokins presents the concert programme Parallels, conceived as a dialogue between different eras, aesthetic values, and spiritual experiences. The programme brings together two giants of Classicism and early Romanticism, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) and Franz Schubert (1797–1828), alongside two prominent representatives of contemporary “new spirituality”, Arvo Pärt (1935) and Pēteris Vasks (1946). In the pianist’s interpretation, these composers emerge not as opposites, but as interlocutors whose voices intertwine through musical similarities and contrasts, forming a single, continuous musical journey.
The music of Arvo Pärt and Pēteris Vasks occupies the realm of contemporary spiritual exploration. Although both composers are often associated with the aesthetics of new spirituality, each represents a distinct national and artistic tradition. Pärt’s ascetic, transparent tintinnabuli language (Für Alina, Variations for the Healing of Arinushka) turns the listener’s attention toward silence and inner meditation. By contrast, Vasks’s The Voice of the Cuckoo is rooted in natural symbolism and emotionally direct, song-like melody, where the spiritual dimension intertwines with collective memory and existential tension.
The relationship between Beethoven and Schubert holds a special place in music history. For Schubert, Beethoven was an almost divine authority: his symphonies and piano sonatas profoundly shaped the younger composer’s musical thinking throughout his life. Only in his late works was Schubert able to distance himself from this influence and forge a fully original musical language — marked by an expanded sense of time, introspective lyricism, and a unique approach to musical form. In this programme, Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat major and Beethoven’s Appassionata represent two different yet deeply interconnected approaches to drama, inner tension, and human passion.
The works featured in this programme were composed at decisive moments in the composers’ lives and creative paths. They reveal inner searching and doubt: Schubert’s sonata was written in the final months of his life; Beethoven’s Appassionata was composed when he was already confronting the irreversible consequences of his progressing deafness; the works by Arvo Pärt included in this concert were written after a prolonged period of silence, amid an aesthetic and spiritual crisis; while Pēteris Vasks’s in The Voice of the Cuckoo invites reflection on the intimate yet at the same time problematic relationship between man and nature.
Pricing
Tickets 25€/15€/60€ .
Supporter's ticket of 60€ will entail a guided tour of the Centre before the concert. The guide will meet you at 16.00 near the information desk.
Transfer Tallinn-Arvo Pärdi Keskus-Tallinn
Book your transfer from Tallinn to Laulasmaa. At 15:45, the vehicle will depart from the car park next to Solaris in Tallinn (Teatri väljak 1) and stop at 16:00 at the Cirkle K car park in Haabersti (Paldiski mnt 106)*, arriving at the Arvo Pärt Centre 25 minutes before the event. The return journey will commence 15 minutes after the event concludes and will take you back to the original meeting point.
The price of a round trip is €20 per person.
The service is provided by PremiumTaxi
*another starting point possible by agreement, by writing to [email protected].
Tickets will not be refunded or swapped for other events.
Arvo Pärt Centre • Kellasalu tee 3, 76702 Laulasmaa, Harju, Estonia
