Composer: Arvo Pärt
Performer: Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Alexei Lubimov, Håkan Hardenberger, Swedish Radio Choir, Tallinn Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2005
Size: 266 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Fratres for Violin & Piano
02. Dopo la vittoria
03. Bogoroditse Djevo (Mother of God and Virgin)
04. I am the true vine
05. Annum per annum (K-G-C-S-A)
06. Spiegel im Spiegel
07. Variations for the Healing of Arinushka
08. Für Alina
Quintettino, Op. 13
09. I. Schnell
10. II. Langsam
11. III. Massig
Concerto Piccolo über B-A-C-H
12. I. Preciso
13. II. Lento
14. III. Deciso
15. Fratres for String Quartet
16. Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
These days Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is mainly associated with his later works. Born in 1935 he wrote ‘avant-garde’ works at first. In the nineteen seventies he increasingly found his inspiration in medieval religious music, both western and eastern European. This first transpired in his Für Alina for piano. It already has the telling low tempo and (two) layers.
Pärt further extended his so-called tintinnabuli (i.e. bells) style in small-scale pieces like the different versions of Spiegel im Spiegel and Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka. Although this last piece has ‘classical’ features as well.
This CD shows an aspect of Arvo Pärt which is seldomly heard: his small-scale chamber music works. As such this recording is a valuable addition to the material already available on the market.