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...
Arvo Pärt wrote the prayer of peace Da pacem Domine to fulfil a commission from Jordi Savall. He began to set this ninth-century Gregorian antiphon two days after the Madrid bombings on 11 March 2004...
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...
De Profundis was the first new composition written after Pärt's emigration, and belongs more with the Estonian tintinnabuli works, with their unwavering adherence to a simple unfolding of material in...
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...
Like the Littlemore Tractus, Pärt's setting of the Salve Regina has an extended hymn-like feel to it. Typically, it builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax - unison vocal lines at the outset,...
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...
'And I heard a voice' is commissioned by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical CNDM (Madrid) on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Salamanca in 2018. The work...
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...