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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Experience an extraordinary masterpiece of sacred choral music with the "Missa syllabica". This deeply moving setting of the traditional Mass Ordinary captivates through its archaic clarity, meditativ...

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...

Cantate Domino is a short, lightly dancing setting of Psalm 95 cast technically very much in the same mould as the mass, though the key is Bb, with two pairs of voices (S/A, T/B) doubling each other a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Immerse yourself in fascinating soundscapes with the exceptional sheet music edition 'Hell und dunkel / Trivium' for organ, published by the renowned Sikorski Musikverlag. This impressive collection c...

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...

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...

`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...

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...