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Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world for 5 consecutive years.
Pärt was born in Paide, Järva County, Estonia, and was raised by his mother and stepfather in Rakvere in northern Estonia. He began to experiment with the top and bottom notes as the family's piano's middle register was damaged. His first serious study came in 1954 at the Tallinn Music Middle School, but less than a year later he temporarily abandoned it to fulfill military service, playing oboe and percussion in the army band. While at the Tallinn Conservatory, he studied composition with Heino Eller. As a student, he produced music for film and the stage. During the 1950s, he also completed his first vocal composition, the cantata Meie aed ('Our Garden') for children's choir and orchestra. He graduated in 1963. From 1957 to 1967, he worked as a sound producer for Estonian radio.
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence, taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA, a Canadian jazz magazine.
The label was distributed in the USA by Warner Bros. Records, PolyGram Records, BMG, and, since 1999, by Universal Music, the successor of PolyGram.
Its album covers have been profiled in two books thus far, Sleeves of Desire and Windfall Light, both published by Lars Müller.
The first ECM release was Free at Last in 1969 by American pianist Mal Waldron. For some years the label specialised in jazz, releasing recordings by pianists Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Egberto Gismonti and Art Lande; saxophonist Jan Garbarek, vibraphonist Gary Burton; drummers Jon Christensen and Paul Motian; guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, Bill Connors and Terje Rypdal; bassists Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Charlie Haden, Barre Phillips and Dave Holland; and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Stephen Layton (born 23 December 1966) is an English conductor.
Layton was raised in Derby, where his father was a church organist. He was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, and subsequently won scholarships to Eton College and then King's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar under Stephen Cleobury.
Whilst studying at Cambridge, Layton founded the mixed-voice choir Polyphony in 1986. He was appointed the musical director of the Holst Singers in 1993, replacing Hilary Davan Wetton, who had founded the group in 1978. Layton has served as assistant organist at Southwark Cathedral and musical director of Wokingham Choral Society. Beginning in 1997, he served as organist and subsequently director of music at the Temple Church. From 1999-2004 he was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Kammerkoor. From 2000-2012 he was Chief Guest Conductor of the Danish National Vocal Ensemble. In 2006, he became Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge. In November 2009, the City of London Sinfonia announced the appointment of Layton as its second Artistic Director, effective with the 2010-2011 season, for an initial contract of 3 years. Layton is also to have the title of Principal Conductor.
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Berliner Messe (or Berlin Mass) is a mass setting by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Commissioned for the 90th Katholikentag in 1990, it was originally scored for SATB soloists and organ. Pärt later revised the piece for chorus and string orchestra. Pärt uses his tintinnabuli technique throughout, with movements taking many forms within that style—flowing from quietly reverent duets between parts to full chorus proclamations of faith.
The work consists of five movements of the Mass ordinary and three movements intended for the celebration of Pentecost:
The fact that the Mass was originally written for Pentecost is evidenced by the presence of the two Alleluias and the Veni Sancte Spiritus. However, Pärt has also set two Alleluia verses to permit the work to be used at Christmas. All five of these movements are marked "ad lib." in the score.
My favourite Arvo Part's organ piece, played on Listomysl samples for Hauptwerk P.S. I have the selb cerebral palsy, but have a success in camera fright struggle, so I played as I usually play.
'Annum per annum' was performed by Kelly J. Wheelbarger on 2.23.14 at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke VA in a concert 'Music of Italy and Estonia' under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Sandborg, Roanoke College, Salem, VA. Mr. Wheelbarger performed the piece again on 2.26.14 for this YouTube posting. Excerpt from Jeremy Grimshaw's description of 'Annum per annum': The very title of Annum per annum (year by year) evokes the passage of large expanses time, and the perhaps the unbroken rites and traditions that string the years together. In fact, the work--one of only a handful for organ by the composer--was commissioned in 1980 to celebrate the 900th year in which daily masses were given at the Speier Cathedral. Dedicated to St. Cecilia, the traditional patron saint of music, Annum...
Konzert vom 03.02.2010 in der Elisabethenkirche Basel. Dieses faszinierende Werk des estnischen Komponisten finde ich äusserst packend. Interessant auch, dass zur Zeit in der Kirche eine Bilderausstellung der Medair gezeigt wird. Ich habe einige Fotos einbezogen. Die Aufnahmen passen meines Erachtens bestens zu dieser Musik. Die Aussage wird durch sie noch verstärkt.
Organist talks up beauty of piece, disappoints
Live Performance, Sunday, March 1, 2015, St. Philip Presbyterian Church, Paul Fritts Organ. Arvo Pärt, from Paide, Estonia, established a personal style that uses medieval, tonal, and minimalist techniques in what he calls “tintinnabuli style.” Annum per annum was commissioned in 1980 for the 900th anniversary of the Cathedral in Speyer. The piece consists of five sections, representing the five parts of the ordinary of the mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei), a ritual which “annum per annum (year after year)” has been offered in devotion throughout the world. The five sections are framed by a beginning that starts full organ and diminishes in a unique way (the organ is turned off and the air dies away). After the Agnus Dei, the opposite happens; the organist manufactures a cr...
Arvo Paert (1935) Annum per Annum Walter Gatti joue aux Grandes Orgues de Alfred Kern de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg lors de la saison "Les Grands Recitals". Enregisté en public par Nieves Regino Hernandez le 19 juin 2002
Available from Hyperion Records (Downloads - mp3, ALAC, FLAC / CD) http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55408&utm;_medium=Youtube Arvo Pärt (b1935) Berliner Messe & Magnificat Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) Get on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/part-berliner-messe-magnificat/id867998889?ls=1&app;=itunes&at;=10ltTR&ct;=yt Featured extracts Berliner Messe [25'07] Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor), Andrew Lucas (organ) 1- Kyrie [3'26] 3- Erster Alleluiavers [0'54] Annum per Annum [11'56] 17- Magnificat [7'04] Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor), Rachel Elliott (soprano) Seven Magnificat-Antiphons [14'58] Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor) 23- O König aller Völker [1'19] 25- De profundis [7'19] with Andrew Lucas (organ), Chris Guy (percussion) Album als...
Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrvo ˈpært]; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and sacred music.[1] Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world for 5 consecutive years.[2] Orchestral works[edit] Nekrolog for orchestra op.5 (1960) Symphony No. 1: Polyphonic op.9 (1963) Perpetuum mobile for orchestra op.10 (1963) Symphony No. 2 for orchestra (1966) Symphony No. 3 for orchestra (1971) Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet hätte ... for piano, wind quintet, string orchestra and percussion (1976) Fratres for chamber ensemble (1976 and on, many versions) Arbos for eight brass ins...
Rie Bloomfield Organ Series. 2015-2016 "Distinguished Guest Artist" Marie Rubis Bauer, organist with Michael Bauer. Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Wiedemann Recital Hall Wichita State University P r o g r a m Fantasia Ut, Re Mi, Fa, Sol, La Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562–1621 All’ Elevazione Domenico Zipoli 1688-1726 Choralpartita Ach, was sol lich ein Sünder machen? BWV 770 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Toccata in C Major, BuxWV 137 Dieterich Buxtehude 1637-1707 Directly following the Intermission: “Conversation with the Artist” Canzon Sol Sol La Sol Fa Mi a 8 ...
Rie Bloomfield Organ Series. 2015-2016 "Distinguished Guest Artist" Marie Rubis Bauer, organist with Michael Bauer. Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Wiedemann Recital Hall Wichita State University P r o g r a m Fantasia Ut, Re Mi, Fa, Sol, La Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562–1621 All’ Elevazione Domenico Zipoli 1688-1726 Choralpartita Ach, was sol lich ein Sünder machen? BWV 770 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Toccata in C Major, BuxWV 137 Dieterich Buxtehude 1637-1707 Directly following the Intermission: “Conversation with the Artist” Canzon Sol Sol La Sol Fa Mi a 8 ...