Arvo Pärt

Chorpartitur - in memoriam Vladimir Zalipski

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...

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...

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...

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...

E ho sentito una voce" è stata commissionata dal Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical CNDM (Madrid) in occasione dell'800° anniversario della fondazione dell'Università di Salamanca nel 2018. L'opera è...

Dopo le precedenti versioni per orchestra d'archi (1991) e per otto violoncelli (2012), Silouan's Song appare ora per la prima volta per coro misto (SATB). Pärt attinge alle parole di San Silouan del...

Da pacem Domine ("Dona la pace, Signore") è stata composta nel 2004 per Jordi Savall in risposta agli attentati ferroviari di Madrid. Questa commovente preghiera per la pace unisce lo stile tintinnabu...

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...

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...

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...

De Profundis was the first new composition written after Pärt's emigration, and belongs more with the Estonian tintinnabuli works, with their unwavering adherence to a simple unfolding of material in...

De Profundis è stata la prima nuova composizione scritta dopo l'emigrazione di Pärt, e appartiene più alle opere tintinnabuli estoni, con la loro incrollabile aderenza a un semplice svolgimento del ma...

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...

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...

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...

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...