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Arvo Pärt

January 2024

  • Martin James Bartlett standing in front of a bright green door, wearing a white shirt and tan coloured jacket, hands raised as if playing the piano, smiling

    Home listening
    Classical home listening: Martin James Bartlett: La Danse; Arvo Pärt: Tractus

    The British pianist cuts a dash on his all-French new record, while string orchestra and choir join forces on ECM’s latest album of works by the Estonian composer

September 2020

  • Locked down. Locked in. But living - - Locked down BTS (1) Dave Bewick

    Lockdown culture
    Locked Down. Locked In. But Living review – Covid anxieties take shape

    Claustrophobia and flights of imagination make a powerful connection in this triple bill of pieces commissioned as a response to the pandemic

April 2019

  • Jon Batiste and the 369th Experience marching band. Soundtrack of America opens The Shed with a five-night concert series celebrating the unrivaled impact of African American music on contemporary culture with performances by today’s most exciting emerging musicians. Conceived and directed by Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, and developed with music visionaries and academic experts, Soundtrack traces a musical “family tree” of spirituals and blues, jazz and gospel, R&B, rock and roll, house, hip hop, and trap that has inspired a new generation of artists who continue to develop that legacy. The McCourt, The Shed, New York

    Hold on to your hard hats: New York's $475m Shed throws open its doors

    The escalators need fixing and there’s no bar – but the show must go on, as stars from Ben Whishaw to Steve McQueen open NYC’s first major new arts venue for decades

August 2018

  • Prom 42, 2018 Georgian virtuoso Khatia Buniatishvili is the soloist in Grieg's ever-popular Piano Concerto, joining Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra for a Prom that also includes Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony and Arvo Pärt's Third Symphony.

    Prom 42: Estonian Festival Orchestra/Järvi review – Pärt grips but Buniatishvili disappoints

    Making their Proms debut, the Estonian Orchestra showed their quality in an all-Nordic programme, marred by Khatia Buniatishvili’s theatrical performance

June 2018

  • Gavin Bryars ’ haunting, ethereal Jesus Blood, the UK composer leading a festival ensemble — including young musicians from Music Generation Louth. Book of Hours festival / Louth contemporary music

    Book of Hours review – tender minimalism to restless bravura

    The highlight of Louth Contemporary Music Society’s varied programme was Gavin Bryars’ Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which brought a tear to the eye

April 2018

  • Estonian composer Arvo Pärt<br>LAULASMAA, ESTONIA - MAY 13, 2014 - 
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in his home forest in Laulasmaa, Estonia, before going on a tour to the United States.
(Photo by Birgit Püve for the Washington Post)

    Arvo Pärt: The Symphonies review – the Parts that make the whole

    The acclaimed Estonian’s four symphonies, definitively conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, are collected on disc for the first time

November 2017

  • Musical monologue ... Daniel Pioro and Pauline Goldsmith in Tabula Rasa.

    Tabula Rasa review – ambitious staged work suffused with Arvo Pärt's mystical music

  • In the moment: clockwise from top left, Celine Dion, 11th-century monks, Enya, Susan Boyle, Arvo Pärt and U2

    The last thing you'll ever hear: what is the world's best deathbed music?

June 2017

  • Terry Riley, Sofia Gubaidulina, Philip Glass Louth Music Preview

    'It’s just me, on the phone in my son’s bedroom.' The church hall that became contemporary music’s hottest venue

    How does a small Irish border town pull in the likes of Terry Riley and Philip Glass? Eamonn Quinn, the man behind Louth’s contemporary music society, reveals all

January 2016

  • LOW RES the sixteen with harry christophers

    Pärt, Byrd: The Deer’s Cry CD review – irresistible choral works

    The Sixteen excel in this compelling sacred music by Byrd and Pärt
  • Arvo Pärt - still from Gunter Atteln's documentary The Lost Paradise

    Music blog
    My year with Arvo Part - he is a man of courage, humility and authenticity

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    Watch an extract from The Lost Paradise - a documentary about Arvo Pärt

  • Composer Anna Clyne

    Music blog
    Anna Clyne: my classical-for-beginners playlist

  • Gabriel Prokofiev

    Music blog
    Gabriel Prokofiev: my classical-for-beginners playlist

September 2015

  • Estonian-born composer Arvo Pärt attends a press conference for the 26th Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo, Japan, 14 October 2014. The Praemium Imperiale is a global arts prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. Five laureates are nominated in the fields of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Theatre/Film.

    Music blog
    Arvo Pärt at 80: listen to five of his least, and best, known works

    The Estonian-born composer celebrates his 80th birthday today. Tom Service selects 10 of his works to listen to, some familiar, some less so.

July 2015

  • 26th Praemium Imperiale Awards press conference<br>14 Oct 2014, Tokyo, Japan --- epa04446126 Estonian-born composer Arvo Part attends a press conference for the 26th Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo, Japan, 14 October 2014. The Praemium Imperiale is a global arts prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. Five laureates are nominated in the fields of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music and Theatre/Film. For its 26th edition, the Praemium Imperiale awards have been given to French painter Martial Raysse, Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone, US architect Steven Holl, South African playwright Athol Fugard and Estonian-born composer Arvo Part. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON --- Image by   FRANCK ROBICHON/epa/Corbis

    Manchester Camerata/Takács-Nagy review – Arvo Pärt's hair-raising welcome

    Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

  • Composer Arvo Pärt, left, with Gerhard RichterManchester International Festival.

    Gerhard Richter/Arvo Pärt; David Matthews: Toward Sunrise; Sacconi Quartet – review

    Gerhard Richter’s paintings and Arvo Pärt’s music complement each other perfectly
    • Richter / Pärt review – history is everywhere and the present is fleeting

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      Readers recommend: minimalist songs

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