Arvo Part: Fratres; John Corigliano: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Paul Moravec: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Albert Glinsky: Toccata-Scherzo; Olivier Messiaen: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus Maria ...
Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...
Join co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies for a varied program of four masterworks. We'll hear Arvo Pärt's "Fratres," Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, Bohuslav Martinů's "Les fresques de Piero della ...
Well this concert was a strange affair. It began with a six-minute overture by Grażyna Bacewicz, the long-forgotten Polish ...
In the lovely, slender documentary “That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt,” producer-director Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to ...
One of the greatest and most enigmatic composers of the late 20th century is made considerably more accessible in "Arvo Part: 24 Preludes for a Fugue." Both an interview and a study of the creative ...
Talented, urbane, and well-informed colleagues like John Kelman often make for a difficult act to follow. Kelman has long been the All About Jazz resident expert on all things ECM. Occasionally, his ...
Pierce hasn’t been alone in declaring a fidelity to Pärt. In 2009, former Public Image Ltd bassist Jah Wobble cited Pärt as his choice of Sunday morning music. He was moved to tears while listening.
Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that ...