Pärt Uusberg — Piano Piece in C Minor
Alo Mattiisen — Typewriter Concerto in D
Veljo Tormis — Reminiscentia: Autumn Landscapes
Eino Tamberg — Concerto Grosso

“I had not actually intended to write a concerto grosso at all; I simply wanted to write a concerto. Since the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra had many outstanding wind players at the time, I decided to use a wind ensemble. But the title became rather cumbersome: Concerto for Five Wind Instruments, Piano, Percussion and Strings. Then it occurred to me that works of this kind had once been called concerti grossi.” - Eino Tamberg

The work proved exceptionally successful. In 1957, it was awarded a gold medal at the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. This success led to performances of the Concerto grosso throughout both Eastern and Western Europe and marked the beginning of Tamberg’s distinguished international career as a composer.

This evening’s programme features another work that received an award for the best musical composition. In 1984, the expert council of the Tartu Popular Music Days bestowed this distinction on Eino Tamberg’s pupil Alo Mattiisen for his humorous and innovative Typewriter Concerto in D. The work marked the beginning of Mattiisen’s meteoric rise on the Estonian music scene.