Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: the essential and phenomenal Arvo Pärt
- 2 A narrow path to the truth: Arvo Pärt and the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Estonia
- 3 Perspectives on Arvo Pärt after 1980
- 4 Musical archetypes: the basic elements of the tintinnabuli style
- 5 Analyzing Pärt
- 6 Arvo Pärt: in his own words
- 7 Bells as inspiration for tintinnabulation
- 8 Arvo Pärt and spirituality
- 9 The minimalism of Arvo Pärt: an ‘antidote’ to modernism and multiplicity?
- 10 Arvo Pärt in the marketplace
- Appendix A Radiating from silence: the works of Arvo Pärt seen through a musician's eyes
- Appendix B Greatly sensitive: Alfred Schnittke in Tallinn
- Appendix C Remembering Heino Eller
- Appendix D Acceptance speech for the International Bridge Prize of the European City of Görlitz
- Appendix E Acceptance speech for the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2008
- Appendix F Works list
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- Index
Appendix F - Works list
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: the essential and phenomenal Arvo Pärt
- 2 A narrow path to the truth: Arvo Pärt and the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Estonia
- 3 Perspectives on Arvo Pärt after 1980
- 4 Musical archetypes: the basic elements of the tintinnabuli style
- 5 Analyzing Pärt
- 6 Arvo Pärt: in his own words
- 7 Bells as inspiration for tintinnabulation
- 8 Arvo Pärt and spirituality
- 9 The minimalism of Arvo Pärt: an ‘antidote’ to modernism and multiplicity?
- 10 Arvo Pärt in the marketplace
- Appendix A Radiating from silence: the works of Arvo Pärt seen through a musician's eyes
- Appendix B Greatly sensitive: Alfred Schnittke in Tallinn
- Appendix C Remembering Heino Eller
- Appendix D Acceptance speech for the International Bridge Prize of the European City of Görlitz
- Appendix E Acceptance speech for the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2008
- Appendix F Works list
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- Index
Summary
Premieres are listed by day/month/year. Titles are given in the language of most common usage.
L'abbé Agathon 2004
Soprano, 8 violoncellos - 15'
Text: English text from “The Desert Christian” by Benedicta Ward
Language: French (alternative version in English)
Premiere: 05/05/2004, Beauvais, France
UE 32767: study score; 33231: piano reduction
– 2004/2005
Soprano, 4 violas, 4 violoncellos
Language: French (English)
Premiere: 10/07/2005, Ossiach, Austria
UE 33004: study score; 33005: piano reduction
– 2004/2008
2 soloists (SA), choir (SA), string orchestra
Language: French (English)
Premiere: 03/11/2008, Richmond, VA, USA
UE 34672: study score; 34673: choral score; 34649: piano reduction
Adam’s Lament 2009/2010
SATB, string orchestra – 18′
Text: Saint Silouan
Premiere: 07/06/2010, Istanbul, Turkey
UE 34740: study score; 34741: choral score; 34742: piano reduction
Alleluia-Tropus 2008
SATB, 8 violoncellos (ad lib.) – 3′
Text: Tropus for December 6th (St. Nicholas)
Language: Church Slavonic
Premiere: 20/12/2008, Bari, Italy
UE 34365: score; 34366: vocal score; 34367: piano reduction
An den Wassern zu Babel sa ßen wir und weinten 1976/1984
SATB, organ – 7–8′
Language: (vocalise)
Premiere: 28/04/1984, Witten, Germany
UE 30159: score = organ part; 30160: vocal score
— 1976/1984
Trombone, chamber orchestra / cl (2), hn, str
Premiere: 19/11/1995, Stockholm, Sweden
UE 30293: score
— 1976/1996
Soloists (SATB), instrumental ensemble
Language: (vocalise)
UE 30161: score; 30160: vocal score
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- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt , pp. 203 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012