As part of the London Philharmonic’s acclaimed “The Rest Is Noise” Festival, celebrating contemporary orchestral music, on 6 November Tõnu Kaljuste led a performance of pieces by Arvo Pärt and Sofia Gubaidulina. Tõnu Kaljuste is one of the foremost choral directors in the world while he has also won acclaim for his non-choral orchestral leadership. […]
24 Preludes for a Fugue is an authorised documentary about Arvo Pärt. A portrait made of precious moments recorded during three prolific years of the composer’s life, the film features rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. Director Dorian Supin succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt’s musical thinking. His work opens a door on the inner world of one
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The International Arvo Pärt Centre (IAPC), located in Laulasmaa, Estonia, celebrated its third anniversary this summer. It was on 22 June 2010 that the Pärt family established the archive and research centre in Estonia in order to preserve the creative heritage of the composer. The IAPC was deliberately located in Laulasmaa, away from the city,
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Last week, Paavo Järvi conducted at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Järvi brought London a wonderful night of music, which included works by a living composer, a composer of the high classical period, and a high romanticist – and yet the entire evening was a seamless musical statement delivered by one of Estonia’s finest musicians. Originally the great
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A Canadian-Estonian Krista Kais-Prial writes about her experience in the University of Tartu’s Academic Women’s Choir in Estonia. The first time I saw the Tartu University Academic Women’s Choir performing live was last summer in Toronto. The concert was lovely – the repertoire was beautiful, the ladies in the choir seemed to be really into
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Sydney Opera House recently devoted a special event in honour of one of the most revered composers of our time, known for his minimalist style and self-invented soundscape, tintinnabuli. “The Composers 2013: Arvo Pärt”, was a celebration of Arvo’s work by the Sydney Youth Orchestra, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and musicians from the Sydney
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A London-based classical music review website has, for the second year running, named Arvo Pärt the year’s most-performed living composer. Bachtrack.com put the 77-year-old Estonian in 54th place overall in its “Concert and Opera League Tables 2012,” a list created from a sampling of 12,597 concerts and 4,451 opera performances. According to Bachtrack.com, the league
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BBC Music Magazine and its official website Classical-music.com chose ECM’s 2012 CD of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament as its recording of the month for January 2013. The disc contains the Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Vox Clamantis performing Adam’s Lament and also Beatus Petronius, Salve Regina, Statuit ei Dominus, Alleluia-Tropus, L’Abbé Agathon, Estonian
As a foremost composer of spiritually informed music, Arvo Pärt is something of an anachronism in modern Estonia. But this unique social position in which Pärt finds himself is analogous to the position of Anton Bruckner in late 19th century Austria. The following examines the parallel lives of Pärt and Bruckner and their strikingly similar
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Estonian Television Girls’ Choir recently performed at the Camden Roundhouse in London, where they shared the bill with Grammy winning musician Imogen Heap and singer-songwriter Ana Silvera. Present among the audience was one of the most iconic producers in the world, the father of ambient music Brian Eno, who kindly found some time to answer
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