Arvo Pärt: A Portrait

Arvo Pärt: A Portrait

Arvo Pärt: A Portrait
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Composer: Arvo Part
Conductor: Neeme Järvi
Conductor: Tamás Benedek
Conductor: Antony Pitts
Conductor: Noel Edison
Conductor: Takuo Yuasa
Conductor: Neil Cox
Performer: Strings of the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Performer: Tonus Peregrinus
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Elora Festival Orchestra
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Performer: Jurgen Petrenko
Performer: Kevin Bowyer
Performer: Peter Davis
Performer: Aleksei Lubimov
Performer: Sandor Falvay
Performer: Simon Mulligan
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Symphony No. 1 ('Polyphonic'), Op. 9: Second Movement
  2. Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, for string orchestra & bell
  3. Passio, for tenor, bass, vocal quartet, chorus, oboe, bassoon, violin, cello & organ: Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joan
  4. Berliner Messe, for SATB chorus & string orchestra: Kyrie
  5. Fratres, for cello & piano
  6. Magnificat, for chorus
  7. Summa, for string orchestra
  8. Passio, for tenor, bass, vocal quartet, chorus, oboe, bassoon, violin, cello & organ: Unde es tu? Jesus autem responsum non dedit ei
  9. Berliner Messe, for SATB chorus & string orchestra: Credo
  10. The Beatitudes, for chorus & organ
  11. Annum per annum, for organ: Einleitung
  12. Annum per annum, for organ: K
  13. Annum per annum, for organ: G
  14. Annum per annum, for organ: C
  15. Annum per annum, for organ: S
  16. Annum per annum, for organ: A
  17. Annum per annum, for organ: Coda
Music CD 2
  1. Fratres, for strings & percussion
  2. Collage over B-A-C-H, for strings, oboe, harpsichord & piano: Toccata
  3. Collage over B-A-C-H, for strings, oboe, harpsichord & piano: Sarabande
  4. Collage over B-A-C-H, for strings, oboe, harpsichord & piano: Ricercare
  5. Pro et contra, concerto for cello & orchestra: I. Maestoso
  6. Pro et contra, concerto for cello & orchestra: II. Largo
  7. Pro et contra, concerto for cello & orchestra: III. Allegro
  8. Symphony No. 3: Third Movement
  9. Cantate Domino, for SATB chorus or soloists & organ
  10. Spiegel im Spiegel, for violin & piano
  11. Triodion, for chorus: Introduction / Ode I
  12. Triodion, for chorus: Ode II
  13. Triodion, for chorus: Ode III / Coda
  14. Tabula rasa, concerto for 2 violins (or violin & viola), prepared piano & string orchestra: Ludus
  15. Passio, for tenor, bass, vocal quartet, chorus, oboe, bassoon, violin, cello & organ: Et ex illa hora accepit eam discipulus in sua

Music reviews of Arvo Pärt: A Portrait

Music Review: Not the best performances, but still a pretty good collection
Rating: 3 Stars

Naxos has never provided the best performances of the music of Arvo Part--the long line of ECM recordings were made under the composer's supervision and thus may be seen as definitive--but the collection ARVO PART: A PORTRAIT is a nice effort indeed. Issued in 2005, the year of the Estonian composer's 70th birthday, this package features selections from nearly his entire career over two discs, in recordings drawn from the Naxos, BIS, and Nimbus labels, and also contains a 78-page booklet with Nick Kimberley's essay "Arvo Part: A Musical Journey".

Arvo Part came to worldwide attention through the minimalistic and overtly spiritual music he began composing in the mid-1970s, but ARVO PART: A Portrait features some music from his early career as well. Part was something of an enfant terrible in the Soviet music world, and in the 1960s he infuriated the socialist realist musical establishment by producing dodecaphonic and collage works through the 1960s. From this era we get the second movement of the Symphony No. 1, the "Collage ueber B-A-C-H", and the cello concerto "Pro et Contra". One does regret, however, that his important piece "Credo", discussed at some length in Kimberley's piece, is not featured here, but perhaps Naxos could not find a recording that could be licensed for inclusion here.

The bulk of the collection, however, is dedicated to Part's "holy minimalism" output, a style which he calls "tintinnabuli" for its bell-like tones. Two selections from his hour-long masterpiece "Passio" are included here, one begin four minutes long and the other twelve. Of the "Berliner Messe" we have the Kyrie and Credo, and the other late pieces here are included full-length.

"Fur Alina", the exceedingly simple piano piece he wrote in 1976, breaking a silence of nearly a decade, is featured here in its scored form in performance by Alexei Lubimov. The ECM recording of this piece is a much longer improvisation by Alexander Malter, so this Naxos collection (or the BIS disc the selection was drawn from) is a good way to hear the piece at its most simple.

Over the last decade or so, Part has began reconciling his tintinnabuli style to the more fiery spirit of his youth. However, none of those pieces, such as "Como cieva sedienta" are represented here, which is regrettable.

While the Naxos performances of Part's music are not the best available, only the Naxos recording of "Tabula Rasa" by the Ulster Orchestra and Takuo Yuasa is outright unlistenable. The rest are acceptable, and this collection makes a more more economical introduction to Part's career than the many full-price ECM discs. And for established Part fans, the included essay by Nick Kimberley is interesting reading, especially when the only other major English-language coverage of Part, Paul Hillier's Arvo Part (Oxford Studies of Composers), is difficult to find.
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