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| 1.Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir by: Tonu Karljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir November 16, 1999 |
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| Harold Bloom says reading is a private experience. That may be true when it comes to Arvo Pärt's music. For some, Arvo Pärt's "Te Deum" will be comforting, if perhaps haunting, background music on a Sunday morning while reflecting or a Friday evening while relaxing. But for a most mystical experience nothing can surpass the effect of listening to "Te Deum" while walking along the River Nidd on a pitch black moonless Yorkshire night, and ending the evening in a small church, listening once more ... Read More: |
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| 2.Kanon Pokajanen by: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir January 25, 2000 |
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| I told someone tonight that this is "music to commit suicide by." What I meant is that if dying were this beautiful, everyone who heard this music would be rushing toward an oncoming train. If I did nothing else important in my life, I turned a few people on to Arvo Part's 'Kanon Pokajanen,' people who never would have found it without me. That's a pretty heavy thing to say, but I've considered it and have decided that yes, I really feel that way.
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| 3.Arvo Pärt: Arbos from: Ecm Records January 25, 2000 |
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| This ECM disc is an important document of the work of Estonian composer Arvo Part, containing as it does a number of important early pieces from the composer's "tintinnabuli" phase. If the earlier TABULA RASA on the same label is the traditional entry point into this style, ARBOS is where one should head next. And as with all ECM discs, the performers are Part's hand-picked men, giving a definitive sheen to the recordings.
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| 4.Passio by: Arvo Part, Hilliard Ensemble January 25, 2000 |
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| One is never sure what to expect when listening to contemporary music. I am into contemporary art music of all types (Ligeti, Nono, Schoenberg, etc.). I saw that Pärt was popular (this cd was displayed in stores that I go to), so I decided to get a hold of this cd. I wasn't sure if it was going to be minimalist, like Reich or Glass, or more avant garde like Nono or Penderecki.
To be sure, if one needed to categorize it, this cd would fall into the more minimalist style. After all, the cd consists of one track ... Read More: |
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| 5.I Am The True Vine: Arvo Part by: Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices, Pro Arte Singers March 14, 2000 |
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| This is the CD I would choose to introduce the music of Arvo Part to a new listener. Why? Because it's beautful music, beautifully sung. Because it's sublimely emotional music, sublimely felt. Because it's modern music that sounds strangely familiar; if you've appreciated Gregorian or Orthodox chant, you'll recognize both the indebtedness and the orginality of Part's music. Because most of the texts are in English or in familiar liturgical Latin; an English text does offer something by way of immediacy.
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| 6.Mozart: Rare Choral Works from: Gloriae Dei Cantores March 01, 2006 |
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| It is a beautiful recording! It's hard to believe the singers practice and record the music as volunteers, it's well worth buying. |
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| 7.Tabula Rasa from: ECM Records March 29, 1994 |
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| I think this recording is one of the best available introductions to Pärt's work. All the pieces are instrumental and are probably more approachable than his immense choral works. The recording centers around "Tabula Rasa", a double-violin concerto, and also includes two of the apparently many versions of "Fratres" and the "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten". The latter, though a moving tribute and a very interesting tour de force, is of minor significance compared to either "Tabula Rasa" or "Fratres". All the performances, though, ... Read More: |
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| 8.Passio from: ECM Records April 26, 1994 |
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| he Estonian composer Arvo Part has composed in several styles during his 40-year career, but the most popular is his "tintinnabuli" style of the 1970s and 1980s, when he chose to turn away from the avant-garde towards the simpler, bell-like sonorities of medieval Western music and plainsong. Because of the frugal nature of the music, as well as the religious titles of many of his works of this time, this style has been called by some "holy minimalism". One of his most ambitious works of this era is his PASSIO or, to use its full title, "Passio Domini ... Read More: |
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| 9.Te Deum from: Ecm Records April 16, 1995 |
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| he Estonian composer Arvo Part has composed in several styles during his 40-year career, but the most popular is his "tintinnabuli" style of the 1970s and 1980s, when he chose to turn away from the avant-garde towards the simpler, bell-like sonorities of medieval Western music and plainsong. Because of the frugal nature of the music, as well as the religious titles of many of his works of this time, this style has been called by some "holy minimalism". One of his most ambitious works of this era is his PASSIO or, to use its full title, "Passio Domini ... Read More: |
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| 10.Litany by: Part, Kaljuste, Hilliard Ensemble September 17, 1996 |
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| he Estonian composer Arvo Part has composed in several styles during his 40-year career, but the most popular is his "tintinnabuli" style of the 1970s and 1980s, when he chose to turn away from the avant-garde towards the simpler, bell-like sonorities of medieval Western music and plainsong. Because of the frugal nature of the music, as well as the religious titles of many of his works of this time, this style has been called by some "holy minimalism". One of his most ambitious works of this era is his PASSIO or, to use its full title, "Passio Domini ... Read More: |
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