Arvo Pärt

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Clarinet trio based on the 2nd movement of the Piano Sonata F major K189e (280) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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...

Silouan's Song was written in 1991 as a composition for string orchestra. The work is based on a text by St. Silouan (1866- 1938), whose theme is the yearning for God.

Arvo Pärt came across a legend concerning the patriarch Agathon, from the 4th century, in a book containing stories of The Desert Fathers. They take us back to the cradle of Christian monasticism, in...

Arvo Pärt è stato affascinato per molti anni dalla vita e dall'opera di San Silouan dell'Athos (1866-1938). Già nel 1991, gli scritti di Silouan hanno ispirato a Pärt la composizione Silouan's Song, "...

Passacaglia for violin and piano was written in 2003 as a commission by the Hannover International Violin Competition. In honour of Gidon Kremer's 60th Birthday in 2007, Arvo Pärt arranged the work fo...