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The Tallinn Music Week, the international new music and city festival held annually since 2009, will fill the Estonian capital’s venues from 10 to 14 May. The music line-up of the festival’s 15th edition features 176 artists from Europe, North and South America, Africa and the Middle East. The greatest share – 84 acts –

The Times’ panel of music critics chose 100 best pieces of classical music from the repertoire of the past 1,000 years and included is Spiegel im Spiegel, an instrumental piece written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978. The Times suggests 100 recordings, arranged in ten categories the paper said it hopes “will convey the

“Once upon a Time”, an exhibition curated by the Estonian National Museum, opened on 27 April in Tampere, Finland; the exhibition about fairy tales, heroes and heroines will remain open in Finland until 10 March 2024. “Once upon a Time” is an exhibition about fairy tales, heroes and heroines, the Tartu-based museum said in a

Estonian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mari Kalkun has announced details of her seventh album, and first since signing to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records; the album, called “The Stories of Stonia”, will be released on 7 July 2023 and is preceded by the single “Tõistmuudu” (“Otherwise”). Co-produced by English folk musician Sam Lee, most of the

“Melchior the Apothecary” trilogy will reach customers of streaming services in the Czech Republic and Germany and the first film of the trilogy will be shown at the FANT film festival in Bilbao, Spain, in May. The rights to trilogy, the detective adventure set in medieval Tallinn, were recently bought by the Czech streaming platform