The Bright Sadness of Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (Oxford Studies of Composers)
by Paul Hillier
Oxford University Press, 1997
(219 pages; $24.95, paper)
Recordings of Music by Arvo Pärt:
De Profundis
Includes The Beatitudes, Cantate Domino, De Profundis, Magnificat, Missa
Sillabica, Summa
The Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi
(76 min.; $17.97, CD)
I Am the True Vine
Includes Berlin Mass
The Theatre of Voices and the Pro Arte Singers, directed by Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi
(57 min.; $17.97, CD)
Kanon Pokajanen
Estonian Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Tönu Kaljuste
ECM
(83 min.; $24.97, 2 CDs)
Litany
Includes Psalom
The Hilliard Ensemble, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, and Estonian Philharmonic
Chamber Choir, conducted by Tönu Kaljuste; the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra,
conducted by Saulius Sondeckis
ECM
(41 min.; $17.97, CD)
Miserere
Includes Sarah Was Ninety Years Old
The Hilliard Ensemble and the Orchester der Beethovenhalle, conducted by Paul
Hillier
ECM
(65 min.; $17.97, CD)
Passio
The Hilliard Ensemble, conducted by Paul Hillier
ECM
(70 min.; $17.97, CD)
Sanctuary
Includes The Beatitudes, Cantus, De Profundis, Festina Lente, Fratres,
Magnificat, Silentium, Summa
Performers include Tasmin Little and Richard Studt (violin), the Bournemouth
Sinfonietta, the Choir of King’s College (Cambridge) directed by Stephen
Cleobury, and others
(62 min.; $17.97, CD)
reviewed by Dale Nelson
In An Experiment in Criticism, C. S. Lewis relates that he once heard a Zulu war song—a recording, we must assume. Far from suggesting to him the attack of spearmen, it sounded “wistful and gentle” to him. Lewis doubted that there is a universal musical language in which “certain airs” correlate with “certain emotions.”
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