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Arvo Pärt
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
Pilgrim's Song
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Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin BrittenArvo Pärt, Dennis Russell Davies and Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Tabula Rasa
Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin BrittenArvo Pärt, Dennis Russell Davies and Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Symphony for Cello ; Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
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Così, Tosca
Keith Jarrett, Gianluigi Trovesi, Savino Acquaviva, Filarmonica Mousiké and Arvo PärtProfumo di Violetta (Trovesi all'Opera)
8:52
Apeggiata addio
Keith Jarrett, Rolf Lislevand, Rolf Lislevand Ensemble and Arvo Pärt7:17
Reading of Sacred Books
Keith Jarrett and Arvo PärtGurdjieff: Sacred Hymns
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