Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Kanon Pokajanen
Our Price: $25.98
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $15.45 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber ChoirComposer: Arvo Part
Conductor: Arvo Part
Orchestra: Arvo Part
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Ode 1
- Ode 3
- Ode 4
- Ode 5
- Ode 6
- Kondakion
- Ikos
- Ode 7
- Ode 8
- Ode 9
- Prayer after the Canon
Music reviews of Kanon Pokajanen
Music Review: Shattering. Don't believe in transcendence? Listen.
Rating: 5 Stars
I told someone tonight that this is "music to commit suicide by." What I meant is that if dying were this beautiful, everyone who heard this music would be rushing toward an oncoming train. If I did nothing else important in my life, I turned a few people on to Arvo Part's 'Kanon Pokajanen,' people who never would have found it without me. That's a pretty heavy thing to say, but I've considered it and have decided that yes, I really feel that way.
No matter what your religion, and even if you are an atheist, it doesn't matter. I sometimes consider myself an atheist. But please, if you are curious enough about this CD to have read this far, buy it.
I was a singer in a rock band in my youth. I had had no exposure to "classical" or "serious" music as a child, and only slowly, and in fits and starts, developed a taste for it. "Choral music" is something I have discovered really only in the past two years or so. Whatever your musical background, including those of you much more musically sophisticated than I, if you are seeking dark, beautiful, intense, shattering, transcendent music, then you have found nirvana. Buy it.
Description of Kanon Pokajanen
It seems as though every year, mystic Estonian composer Arvo P?rt delivers a new, thoroughly riveting composition. This year, it was Kanon Pokajanen. From the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church, Part created an a cappella masterpiece, a minimalist work that builds itself gradually, yet completely, upon haunting voices, harmonies, and volume. On this disc, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir delivers a gripping performance, with gorgeous sound quality. It's more than 80 minutes long, but thoroughly rewarding. --Jason VerlindeArvo P?rt's Kanon Pokajanen is an unqualified masterpiece. Although he's previously written music with similar notions of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic economy, this work successfully incorporates and develops material that in this context easily could become unwieldy. The texts are taken from the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church, a subject that has occupied the composer for many years. These songs of transformation "invoke the border between day and night ... prophecy and fulfillment, the here and the hereafter." Supervised by the composer, this performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is pure gold, and likely will remain the definitive recording. P?rt's music rises from gentle valleys to impressive dramatic heights; from single voices to full choir. Here is 83 minutes of exquisite a cappella music in which time and space seem one, and rhythms find their place in a perfect synchrony with breathing and heartbeat. Whether any of this is conscious on the composer's part is incidental. P?rt is tuned into something that finds and touches us all. --David Vernier
Part, Arvo CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Part, Arvo CDs
LamentateRelease date: 2005-08-30; Music CD
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops:
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier - Arvo P?rt: Da PacemRelease date: 2006-09-12; Music CD
Best price: $13.91
Price in other shops:
King's Singers ChristmasRelease date: 2003-10-21; Music CD
Best price: $19.97
Price in other shops:
The Norton Recordings: Four CDs to accompany The Norton Scores & The Enjoyment of Music, Tenth Shorter EditionRelease date: 2007-01-01; Published: 2007; Music CD
Price in other shops:
SilencioRelease date: 2000-10-10; Music CD
Best price: $11.46
Price in other shops:
SanctuaryRelease date: 1998-02-17; Music CD
Best price: $8.96
Price in other shops:
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Karljuste - Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber ChoirRelease date: 1999-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $10.97
Price in other shops:
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century (6 CDs)W. W. Norton; Published: 2005-07-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $60.78
Price in other shops:
Alina - Arvo P?rtRelease date: 2000-02-01; Music CD
Best price: $10.68
Price in other shops:
Tabula RasaRelease date: 1999-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $11.17
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"Release date: 1992-05-05; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
Arvo P?rt: De ProfundisRelease date: 1997-03-10; Music CD
Best price: $13.85
Price in other shops:
Part: SummaRelease date: 2002-12-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.97
Price in other shops:
MiserereRelease date: 2000-03-07; Music CD
Best price: $9.56
Price in other shops:
LamentateRelease date: 2005-08-30; Music CD
Best price: $10.49
Price in other shops:
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier - Arvo P?rt: Da PacemRelease date: 2006-09-12; Music CD
Best price: $13.98
Price in other shops:
LitanyRelease date: 1996-09-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.00
Price in other shops:
Tabula RasaRelease date: 1999-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $10.77
Price in other shops:
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tonu Karljuste - Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber ChoirRelease date: 1999-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $10.88
Price in other shops:
Alina - Arvo P?rtRelease date: 2000-02-01; Music CD
Best price: $10.58
Price in other shops: