Music inspired by and set to texts by Jaan Kaplinski

Seppar - “Seesama meri”

Agopov - "Four poems for male voices and organ"

Tormis - "The Ballad of Mary's Land"
“Maarjamaa ballaad”, "Once We Will Reapper" ("Our Shadows")

Jaan Kaplinski was a world-class thinker and writer, arguably the most cosmopolitan of Estonian writers while deeply rooted in Estonian thought and language. Diverging from the standard Estonian literary language in his last decade, the poet consciously chose to publish his poetry in Võro and Russian instead of standard Estonian.

One intermission, duration 1 h 40 min