“Rändaja” (The Wanderer) – music evening, Kadriorg Art Museum

The music evening “Rändaja” (The Wanderer) at Kadriorg Art Museum is dedicated to everyone who travels through life without fearing the winds of change – and to everyone who knows that darkness does not last forever and that dawn follows even the gloomiest night.

The programme includes Beethoven's Seventeenth Piano Sonata “The Tempest”, a struggle with an unstoppable fate. Alongside it sound Robert Schumann's Symphonic Études, a spiritual odyssey in which every turn of melody is a step from doubt to insight. Ralph Vaughan Williams's song cycle “Songs of Travel” to texts by Robert Louis Stevenson promises adventures from which one never returns unchanged. Four songs by Pyotr Tchaikovsky bring hope, bright sadness, homesickness and the joy of a new meeting.

German Romanticism, Viennese Classicism, Russian lyric poetry and 20th-century English modernism were born in different centuries and corners of Europe, yet they share the invisible motif of the eternal journey – and music can speak of it more precisely than any word, without translation.

Performers: Ivan Babich, a young baritone who has already proved himself at international competitions; and Viktor Peleptšuk, an Austrian pianist, prize-winner of international and regional competitions, who has lived and worked in Klagenfurt since 2016.

Time: 24 November 2026, 19:00

Place: Kadriorg Art Museum, A. Weizenbergi 37, Tallinn