Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt ha scritto la preghiera di pace Da pacem Domine su commissione di Jordi Savall. Egli iniziò a musicare questa antifona gregoriana del IX secolo due giorni dopo gli attentati di Madrid dell'1...

Commissionato dalla Louth Contempory Music Society, The Deer's Cry di Pärt è stato eseguito in prima mondiale nel febbraio 2008 a Louth, in Irlanda, dal Coro di Stato Latvija e diretto da Fergus Sheil...

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...

Pärt is one of the few composers to whom the term new simplicity- in itself absurd, and used both mistakenly and misleadingly - really applies. After a thorough study of medieval music, he arrived at...

La Piccola Litania (2015) per coro misto a cappella di Arvo Pärt è stata scritta per la riapertura della Cappella medievale di Virgilio a Vienna. La composizione meditativa invita alla contemplazione...

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...

La combinazione di una parte melodica che percorre gradualmente una scala diatonica e di una voce tintinnabuli che si limita ai toni di una triade tonale. Il risultato è un dialogo di voci che si comp...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Il Magnificat è una delle opere più serene di Pärt ed è diventato meritatamente popolare tra i cori di tutto il mondo. La musica esprime perfettamente l'esaltata, tenera gioia della Vergine Madre, e t...

In which Was the Son of... for mixed a cappella-choir Arvo Pärt uses the Genealogy of Jesus in accordance with the Gospel of Luke. (St Luke 3, 23 -28). While the Magnificat from Luke Chapter I - the S...

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 Two Lullabies were composed in 2002 by Arvo Pärt. The first, a Christmas Lullaby, is set for one singing voice and piano, the second, an Estonian Lullaby requires two female voices and piano. Bo...

Arvo Pärt is a composer best known for his 'tintinnabuli' compositions. It is a lesser-known fact that in his earlier years as a composer, he also wrote children's songs and piano pieces along with mu...

The Berlin Mass is intended to be sung liturgically during Pentecost, and includes the Veni Sancte Spiritus specific to that service. The gently unfolding repetition deliberately avoids dramatic and p...

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...

Arvo Pärt's Mozart-Adagio (1992) for violin, cello and piano was composed for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio on commission by the Helsinki Festival, where it was premiered. The piece is in memor...

Fratres (allestimento originale per violino e pianoforte) è stato commissionato dal Festival di Salisburgo e presentato per la prima volta il 17 agosto 1980 in quella stessa sede (violino: Gidon Kreme...

The basic musical material of Pari intervallo by Arvo Pärt consists of two parts which move exactly parallel to each other, so that the interval between them is always the same- hence the title. Pari...

`Spiegel im Spiegel` is a well-known example of Arvo Pärts Tintinnabuli style and has been used in many films. Arvo Pärts Spiegel im Spiegel illustrates his creative principles: above a permanent flow...

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...