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...

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...

Y oí una voz' es un encargo del Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical CNDM (Madrid) con motivo del 800 aniversario de la fundación de la Universidad de Salamanca en 2018. La obra está dedicada a la memo...

Tras versiones anteriores para orquesta de cuerda (1991) y ocho violonchelos (2012), la Canción de Silouan aparece ahora por primera vez para coro mixto (SATB). Pärt se basa en las palabras de San Sil...

Da pacem Domine ("Da la paz, Señor") fue compuesta en 2004 para Jordi Savall en respuesta a los atentados de los trenes de Madrid. Esta conmovedora plegaria por la paz aúna el estilo tintinnabuli de P...

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...

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 fue la primera composición nueva escrita después de la emigración de Pärt, y pertenece más a las obras tintinnabuli estonias, con su inquebrantable adhesión a un sencillo desarrollo del m...

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...

Following an initiative by Princess Caroline of Monaco/Hannover to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the reign of his Highness, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, composer Arvo Pärt was commissioned to c...

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...