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Paul Hillier’s naming as conductor and artistic director of the acclaimed Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) is an occasion that deserves some celebration. Harmonia Mundi
If you love Arvo Pärt’s generally serene and string-laden orchestral music, then you’ll love this disc. Yes, there’s a certain sameness to all 73 minutes
While the repertoire on this disc is chronologically and geographically circumscribed, it nevertheless offers abundant variety of mood and texture. Alfred Schnittke’s Suite in the
Although he writes music in a very different style today, Arvo Pärt was right not to repudiate these early works, difficult though some of them
The main question here is, how does this newcomer compare to the reference recording of Arvo Pärt’s unique and poignant Passion setting, a 1988 ECM
Hélene Grimaud certainly takes herself seriously, though not without reason. A self-proclaimed fan of German Romanticism, she contributes a booklet note saturated with 19th century
Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa was written for Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Gridenko, and Eri Klas in 1977, and it’s not an overstatement to say that they
This astonishing disc contains three works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), works that represent the three major stages in his career. Even though
If you’re a fan of vocal music, you have to consider yourself fortunate that two of today’s greatest living composers are masters of choral writing.
It’s remarkable how completely the twenty-something British violin virtuoso Daniel Hope enters into the often tortured world of eastern European composers. The centerpiece of this
