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 ...

Arvo Pärt's Fratres ("Brethren") dates from 1977 and is an early example of the meditative, mystical style he was developing at the time, known as tintinnabuli (after the Latin word for "bells"). It ...

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 ...

To mark the 85th birthday of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt on September 11, ERR will broadcast several concerts and a documentary about Pärt's life will be shown on television for the first time.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...