'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
Commissioned by Durham University on the occasion of its 175th anniversary in 2007. The world premiere took place on December 10th, 2007 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London by Durham University Choir,...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
11 super songs from the silver screen, complete with a CD of great-sounding accompaniment tracks for play-along.
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...
This piece for female choir a cappella is Pärt's musical interpretation of Psalm 122 (121): I rejoiced that they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of Yahweh.' At last our feet are standing at your g...
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...
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...
It takes 75 minutes to relate the story of the Passion according to the Latin of St John's Gospel; Pärt uses solo singers for the roles of Pilate and Christ, and a group of four soloists (soprano, cou...
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...
Beatus Petronius and Statuit ei Dominus were commissioned in 1990 to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Basilica San Petronio, the principal church of Bologna. San Petronio is one of the few chu...
An den Wassern zu Babel, scored for four solo voices and organ, is a setting of the famous Waters of Babylon passage from Psalm 137. The weeping and wailing by the waters have evoked response in many...
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...
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...
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...
Chorpartitur - St Luke 7, 36-50
Listening to Arvo Pärt's newest composition, Litany, is like walking alone in a vast, empty space. A deserted monastery, perhaps. History and stillness hang thick as incense in the air. Light from arc...
Partitur - Aufführungsmaterial leihweise
This work was commissioned by the Festival d'Eté in Rouen (France) and premiered at that very place in 1989.
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...
This is Pärt's musical interpretation of the psalms 117 and 131 in slavic language. 117 (116) O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us...
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
Zwei Beter (Two prayers) for female a cappella choir is Arvo Pärt's musical interpretation of St Luke 18, 9- 14 in German. Two prayers: And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselv...
Following an initiative by Princess Caroline of Monaco/Hannover to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the reign of his Highness, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, composer Arvo Pärt was commissioned to c...
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...
Littlemore Tractus was commissioned first in 1999 so that its first performance in February 2001 would coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English priest, poet, nineteenth century...
Arvo Pärt received a commission to compose this work from the Agenzia Romana per la preparazione del Giubileo, that was, the body responsible for the organisation of the Holy Year 2000 in Rome. Pärt w...
In principio takes its words from the Gospel of John 1:1-14 and puts them into a five-movement form. This work, as in all of Pärt's music, is governed by a strict formal design, with the clarity of th...
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 says of this work: In the 1960s I became so fascinated by that central idea of Christianity 'Love your enemies' that it gave birth to my composition Credo. The work comprises two musically o...
Partitur = Orgelstimme.
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...
Pärt's take on the Te Deum text, also known as the Ambrosian Hymn, employs his signature tintinnabuli style of composition. The melodic lines, as well as their harmonies, strictly follow the rhythms o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ich war jeden Tag im Kindergarten, bis zum Abitur! sagt Arvo Pärt verschmitzt. Seine Mutter war Kindergärtnerin in Rakvere und nach der Schule besuchte er diese regelmäßig. Für die anwesenden Kinder s...
On 4 July 2011 Arvo Pärt performed his Vater unser (Our Father) for Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in the Vatican celebrating the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Pärt also prese...
Clarinet trio based on the 2nd movement of the Piano Sonata F major K189e (280) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.