Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current ...
Hand it to the Cleveland Museum of Art. When it comes to the Viva! and Gala Around Town Series, organizers there know not only where it's best to hold an event, but also when. Arvo Part's "Passio," a ...
The American professional premiere of Arvo Part`s ”Passio” by the Hilliard Ensemble on Monday in Orchestra Hall was more in the nature of a subliminal communal experience than a concert in the ...
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The Passion by the most successful contemporary composer Arvo Pärt was performed in Graz Cathedral. It was conducted by the Graz Cathedral conductor Melissa Dermastia. The starting point is clear. The ...
Considered by many as the apotheosis of his style, Arvo Pärt’s Passio inhabits an austere place even by the Estonian composer’s own standards. Dating from 1982, it is so self-consciously retrogressive ...
When Estonian composer Arvo Pärt wrote a Passion setting in 1989, he was one of the first composers to do so since Bach. A convert to Russian Orthodoxy, Pärt uses the Latin text of St. John’s Gospel ...
Edward Breen and Fabrice Fitch revisit the premiere recording of Arvo Pärt’s Passio, set down by the Hilliard Ensemble in 1988 The Hilliard Ensemble at the recording of Passio in London, March 1988 ...
Arvo Part has, since the mid-1970s, become one of the most popular composers in Western concert music. Estonian, he has developed a distinctive style (tintinnabuli) which, in part, combines plainchant ...
People can debate whether the Gospel according to St. John is the most anti-Semitic of the four. But Arvo Part’s “Passio,” a 1982 Renaissance redux Latin setting of the John text, heard Saturday at St ...
A Cappella is the original format for choral singing. The five selections addressed here make 2016 one of the better years for this music. Kings College Cambridge -The King's Men Twelve Days of ...