'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...