Arvo Pärt

Pärt's composition appears functional, plain, without intellectual secret-mongering. It is built upon single intervals, triads and little rhythm games as well as upon medieval patterns. These Magnific...

Written for the 900th anniversary of the foundation of Norwich Cathedral in 1996, this setting from Chapter 15 of St John's Gospel shows Pärt at his most controlled. lnspired by the strength and simpl...

Chorpartitur - St Luke 7, 36-50

The Woman With the Alabaster Box and Tribute to Caesar were both commissioned for the 350th anniversary of the Karlstad Diocese in Sweden in 1997. Both are settings of texts from the Gospel according...

Tribute to Caesar and The Woman With the Alabaster Box were both commissioned for the 350th anniversary of the Karlstad Diocese in Sweden in 1997. Both are settings of texts from the Gospel according...

Chorpartitur - in memoriam Vladimir Zalipski

Nunc dimittis, also known as Simeon's canticle, is taken from the New Testament (Luke II, 29-32); it is a short paean which Simeon took up when, as promised by the Holy Spirit, he was allowed to see t...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

Psalm 133, a pilgrim song of David with three verses, is one of the short psalms. It describes the blessing of brotherly unity: Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to live in unity! Arvo...

When Agustin Gutierrez Canet, the Mexican ambassador to Estonia, invited me to Mexico, my interest and notions of the country were strongly affected be the famous legend of Juan Diego and his reports...

Et j'ai entendu une voix" est une commande du Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical CNDM (Madrid) à l'occasion du 800e anniversaire de la fondation de l'université de Salamanque en 2018. L'œuvre est déd...

Après les versions pour orchestre à cordes (1991) et pour huit violoncelles (2012), le Chant de Silouan paraît pour la première fois pour chœur mixte (SATB). Pärt s'inspire des paroles de saint Siloua...

Da pacem Domine ("Donne la paix, Seigneur") a été composée en 2004 pour Jordi Savall en réponse aux attentats ferroviaires de Madrid. Cette émouvante prière pour la paix allie le style tintinnabuli de...

After a period of focusing on a cappella choral works, culminating in the substantial Kanon pokajanen, this is Arvo Pärt's first work for solo soprano and orchestra. He has chosen the verses of Psalms...

Von Puppen, Fröschen und Glühwürmchen - Klangvolles für kleine Stimmen Entstanden zwischen 1956 und 1964, stellen die 5 Kinderlieder in ihrer Einfachheit einen idealen ersten Zugang zu Pärts Musik und...