IX Tallinn feat. Reval: final concert “Venetian Splendour” at Niguliste Museum

The festival’s closing concert: Venetian splendour. Sacri e festivi concerti veneziani.

Performed by the Estonian Baroque Orchestra, vocal soloists and guests from the Bremen University of the Arts, conducted by Josué Meléndez (Switzerland).

We owe the fame of multi-choir music above all to the composers who worked in Venice at the end of the 16th century, especially at St Mark’s Basilica. Yet extensive multi-choir experiments seem to have begun as early as the 16th century in Munich, and reached Venice through the friendship of Orlando di Lasso and Adriano Willaert, who were the court Kapellmeisters of Munich and Venice respectively.

Our programme includes works by these two giants of Renaissance music and by the multi-choir splendour that flourished in 17th-century Venice. Composers represented include Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Rovetta, Giovanni Legrenzi and Johann Rosenmüller.

Time and place: 29 November 2026, 19:00, Niguliste Museum, Niguliste 3, Tallinn.