Arvo Pärt, one of the world's most honored living composers, recently recorded and released two new works on a CD called Lamentate, conducted by Andrey Boreyko. Music critic Tom Manoff says the pieces ...

Arvo Part says he found his musical voice by letting everything unimportant fall away. His heartfelt directness has made him one of today's best-loved composers. We'll hear a concert performance of ...

Of all the longstanding relationships built between its artists and Manfred Eicher, the musical partnership of ECM Records' founder/primary producer and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt—who turned 80 years ...

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 ...

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current ...

In her essay, “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Susan Sontag writes that “the artist who creates silence or emptiness must produce something dialectical: a full void, an enriching emptiness, a resonating ...

It's no secret that many listeners have trouble warming up to contemporary classical music. But a few composers have cultivated styles more accessible for the average listener. Now in his 70s, ...

Generations have grown up with Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's "Songs from Childhood." On October 7, Vanemuine Theater is bringing them to life in a new children's production. Premiering next week, ...

In New York, American Opera Projects and the Long Play music festival have joined forces to bring Arvo Pärt's work to new audiences. The event is part of the year-long celebrations in the city to mark ...

At least since his debut recording for the ECM label, Tabula Rasa (1984), Arvo Part has occupied a unique position in the world of music. He has been called the "Mystic of Minimalism," a term which ...

Hand it to the Cleveland Museum of Art. When it comes to the Viva! and Gala Around Town Series, organizers there know not only where it's best to hold an event, but also when. Arvo Part's "Passio," a ...

"Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie": Isabel Bayrakdarian, Zheng Cao, Frederica von Stade, Susan Graham, Paul Groves, Keith Phares, and Joyce DiDonato (Avie) What on Earth is going on here? That ...