Alina - Arvo P?rt
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Performer: Vladimir SpivakovPerformer: Alexander Malter
Composer: Arvo P?rt
Performer: Sergei Bezrodny
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Spiegel im Spiegel
- F?r Alina
- Spiegel im Spiegel
- F?r Alina
- Spiegel im Spiegel
Music reviews of Alina - Arvo P?rt
Music Review: Music to absorb
Rating: 5 Stars
This review will be in fragments, as this is how thoughts come to me when listening to this remarkable CD. As I type this, I am listening to it on my iPod, where you can hear the breathing of the musicians, the gentle scratch of the bow on the strings. It is an intimate experience.
The deeply impactful movie "Wit" uses parts of Mirror in Mirror in the soundtrack, and that was our introduction to this music. The search ensued, the CD purchased, and it is one of the gems in our large music collection. It transcends genre, and time.
My dad passed away early last year from a stroke - when he was in hospice, we played this music for him on his last day. It seemed like the most peaceful, soothing, spiritual music that we owned. I hope that he liked it.
This is not music easily understood in a time where movies are loaded with fast edits, where nightly newscasts have segments lasting 30 seconds. This is music to put on when you want to do some thinking, or some escaping, or some relaxing. One reviewer put it very well, in that this music can help you realize that life's chaos, which brings stress and unfulfillment, is just noise, and that through these notes, you can realize that things will be OK.
It is not for everyone - though looking through all of the reviews, it seems to suit many people for many reasons. All I know is that it is one of the most important works I own, and that I will return to it often for the rest of my life.
Description of Alina - Arvo P?rt
Arvo P?rt's Alina follows a simple-enough formula. Two stark instrumental works from the master of holy minimalism repeat each other, each time slightly different. But the blissful results--quiet, haunting, and thoroughly hypnotizing--meld to create one of classical music's best albums of 2000. It's as intense and sublime as contemporary classical music can be. --Jason VerlindeThis is a remarkable release, both for its beauty and its novelty at programming. F?r Alina is a two-minute solo piano piece composed by P?rt in l976 that ushered in his "tintinnabuli" style, that is, the bell-like, simple, no-notes-wasted method for which he has become beloved and famous. On this CD, pianist Alexander Malter plays it twice, as the second and fourth tracks; each iteration takes almost 11 minutes (P?rt assumed it would be embellished, and he chose this pair for the CD). There are minute variations in tempo, emphasis, and rubato from one to the other, but, all that being said, it amounts to 22 minutes of the most beautiful, contemplative music ever performed. Almost equally gentle is Spiegel im Spiegel, played as tracks 1, 3 and 5 and scored for piano and, respectively, violin, cello, and then violin again. The instruments mirror one another (Spiegel is German for mirror), with notes added to the scale with each repetition, and so on. Almost impossible to describe in its loveliness, each of the three sets is beautiful; the cello in track 3 gives it extra mellowness. This is music staggering in its simple complexity and a treat for the ear and heart. --Robert Levine
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