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Arvo Pärt
(Arvo Part)
Celebrated as one of the greatest contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt (b. 1935,
Estonia) got off to a rocky start under Communist rule. Winner of the 1963 USSR
Young Composers' Competition, the neoclassical-influenced musician went through
various phases (dodecaphonism, serialism, collages), creating controversy with
his religiously-inspired Credo and Symphony No. 3. Despite censorship, he
pursued his research and developed a style that he himself called "tintinnabuli"
for the play of bells in his compositions. The series of medieval-inspired works
Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britt...
Nunc Dimittis (2001)Arvo Pärt and Agnès Laissy (Arvo Part)
Pilgrim's Song
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Da Pacem Domine (2004)Gentlemen Singers, Arvo Pärt, Václav Kovář, Jan Lžičař and Milan Puklický (Arvo Part)
Arvo Pärt: The Deer's Cry
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Summa Credo (1977)Gentlemen Singers, Arvo Pärt, Václav Kovář, Jan Lžičař and Milan Puklický (Arvo Part)
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And One of the Pharisees (1990)Gentlemen Singers, Arvo Pärt, Václav Kovář, Jan Lžičař and Milan Puklický (Arvo Part)
De Profundis
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Così, Tosca
Keith Jarrett, Gianluigi Trovesi, Savino Acquaviva, Filarmonica Mousiké and Arvo Pärt (Arvo Part)Profumo di Violetta (Trovesi all'Opera)
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Reading of Sacred Books
Keith Jarrett and Arvo Pärt (Arvo Part)Gurdjieff: Sacred Hymns
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