Kristjan Järvi's Baltic Sea Voyage is part of his project with the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic to promote the music of Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe, bringing a clear focus to this region's national identities and cultural aspirations. To an extent, one can agree with Järvi that some of these former Hanseatic nations have received scanty attention in the west, and their composers have been under-represented in the standard repertoire. One can make the case that Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland have ...
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Kristjan Järvi's Baltic Sea Voyage is part of his project with the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic to promote the music of Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe, bringing a clear focus to this region's national identities and cultural aspirations. To an extent, one can agree with Järvi that some of these former Hanseatic nations have received scanty attention in the west, and their composers have been under-represented in the standard repertoire. One can make the case that Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland have suffered such neglect until attention began to be paid to contemporary composers Gediminas Gelgotas, Arvo Pärt, Imants Kalnins, and Wojciech Kilar, yet still be baffled that that Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland are only represented here by their most famous composers, Carl Nielsen, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Edvard Grieg, and Jean Sibelius. However, it's most difficult to accept that Russia and Germany really belong in this beleaguered company, or that they should be represented by Igor...
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