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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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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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Summa Credo (1977)Gentlemen Singers, Arvo Pärt, Václav Kovář, Jan Lžičař and Milan Puklický (Arvo Part)
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POV: You Just Leveled UpSynthRift, Arvo Pärt, Adolf Terschak, Aaron Copland, Adalgiso Ferraris and Alexander Glazunov (Arvo Part)
Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin BrittenArvo Pärt, Dennis Russell Davies and Staatsorchester Stuttgart (Arvo Part)
Tabula Rasa
