Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt a écrit la prière de paix Da pacem Domine pour répondre à une commande de Jordi Savall. Il a commencé à composer cette antienne grégorienne du IXe siècle deux jours après les attentats de Ma...

There is comparatively little piano music by this important contemporary composer and both these editions (Für Anna Maria, Four Piano Pieces for Childrens' Theatre) are welcome additions to the young...

Le Magnificat est l'une des oeuvres les plus sereines de Pärt, et est devenu à juste titre populaire auprès des choeurs du monde entier. La musique exprime parfaitement la joie exaltée et tendre de la...

Composed in 1990, and revised in 1991, for SATB Choir or soloists with organ accompaniment, Pärt's setting of The Beatitudes is one of only a handful of works (Litany and And One of the Pharisees also...

Commandée par la Louth Contempory Music Society, The Deer's Cry de Pärt a été créée en février 2008 à Louth, en Irlande, par le State Choir Latvija, sous la direction de Fergus Sheil. Basée sur une mi...

The sheet music of Arvo Pärts 'Spiegel im Spiegel' for clarinet and piano illustrates his creative principles: above a permanent flow of chords on the piano, the clarinet unfolds acantilena in long no...

Il s'agit de l'interprétation musicale par Pärt des psaumes 117 et 131 en langue slave. 117 (116) O louez le Seigneur, toutes les nations : louez-le, tous les peuples. Car sa bonté est grande envers n...

Fratres (mise en musique originale pour violon et piano) a été commandée par le Festival de Salzbourg et créée le 17 août 1980 dans ce même lieu (violon : Gidon Kremer, piano : Elena Kremer). Daniel...

La combinaison d'une partie mélodique qui parcourt progressivement une gamme diatonique et d'une voix tintinnabuli qui se limite aux tons d'une triade tonale. Le résultat est un dialogue de voix qui s...

Pari intervallo was composed in 1976 on the occasion of the death of a friend and is dedicated to his memory. The basic musical material consists of two parts which move exactly parallel to each other...

Pärt's emotionally-charged Bogoróditse Djévo, is a vibrant tribute to the Virgin Mary which is sung in the traditional Orthodox Church Slavic language and alludes to traditional Orthodox compositional...

Inspired by his visit to Fátima, scene of a famous Marian Apparition in 1917, Arvo Pärt wrote a small choral piece based on a passage from Psalm 8. 3 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast...

These four appealing pieces, written for a children’s theatre, are as humorous as they are poetic. For the first two dances Pärt took stories from the brothers Grimm: Puss in Boots and Little Red Ridi...

The text of Dopo la Vittoria comes from the encyclopaedia A Historical Survey of Ecclesiastical Singers and Songs (author of the encyclopaedia: Archbishop Philaret, published in St. Petersburg in 1902...

Pärt's Solfeggio for mixed a cappella-choir - sung on the solmization syllables Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si - was composed in 1963 and premiered in Tallinn (Estonia) by the Estonian Radio Choir (director: E...

When Arvo Pärt sets words to music, he gives the impression of having entered into the depths of his chosen text and returned to the surface with an entirely fresh impression of what it's all about. T...

'Ukuaru valss' was originally composed for the Estonian movie 'Ukuaru' in 1973. After revising the original version for piano in 2010 (UE34746), this short and lively waltz is now also available for a...

The sheet music of Arvo Pärts 'Spiegel im Spiegel' illustrates his creative principles: above a permanent flow of chords on the piano, the viola unfolds acantilena in long note values, which grows out...

Passacaglia for violin and piano was written in 2003 as a commission by the Hannover International Violin Competition. In honour of Gidon Kremer's 60th Birthday in 2007, Arvo Pärt arranged the work fo...

Pärt erreicht die Prägnanz seiner Musik durch ein Minimum an Aufwand: Drei Sänger, begleitet von drei Streichinstrumenten, intonieren den lateinischen Text von Jacopone da Todi (13. Jahrhundert) in ar...

Pärt erreicht die Prägnanz seiner Musik durch ein Minimum an Aufwand: Drei Sänger, begleitet von drei Streichinstrumenten, intonieren den lateinischen Text von Jacopone da Todi (13. Jahrhundert) in ar...

Fratres (original setting for violin and piano) was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and premiered on August 17th, 1980 at that very place (violin: Gidon Kremer, piano: Elena Kremer). Composed in...

In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt's 'Tabula rasa', the first album on the label's New Series imprint. Now, on the occasion of Pärt's 75th birthday,...

This concertina piece was written for the 1973 Leida Laius film Ukuaru, in which Aksel (Lembit Ulfsak) enchants Minna (Elle Kull) by playing the waltz, which then becomes a powerful and lasting artist...