Arvo Pärt

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...

Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano, written in 1978, illustrates his creative principles: above a permanent flow of chords on the piano, the cello unfolds acantilena in long note valu...

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...

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...

Commissionato dalla Durham University in occasione del suo 175° anniversario nel 2007. La prima mondiale ha avuto luogo il 10 dicembre 2007 a St Martin-in-the-Fields, Londra, con il Durham University...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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

Questa è l'interpretazione musicale di Pärt dei salmi 117 e 131 in lingua slava. 117 (116) O lodate il Signore, voi tutte le nazioni; lodatelo, voi tutti i popoli. Perché la sua misericordia è grande...

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...