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ComposerPärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
PeriodContemporary
Year1977
Work typeOrchestral
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DresdenMacMillan and Choir

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Pärt, MacMillan, Bach, Britten
Dresden Philharmonic; Sir James MacMillan; Dresden Philharmonic Children's Choir; Dresden Philharmonic Choir; TBC

SalzburgChamber Concert Prégardien · Vienna Philharmonic

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Pärt, Britten, Wagner, Strauss R.
Julian Prégardien; Members of the Vienna Philharmonic

PhiladelphiaJoe Hisaishi Returns

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Pärt, Hisaishi
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Joe Hisaishi; Alice Sara Ott
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Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

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Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.
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Estonian Festival Orchestra make Carnegie Hall debut with Arvo Pärt

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Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra don’t skirt all the pitfalls of a single-composer program in an all-Pärt evening at Carnegie Hall.
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A meditative Estonian celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt

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The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, present an Arvo Pärt portrait concert in Glasgow. 

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HamburgArvo Pärt 90: Estonian Festival Orchestra / Paavo Järvi

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Pärt
Estonian Festival Orchestra; Paavo Järvi; Hans Christian Aavik; Midori
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The art of memory: classical music for mourning

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From fulfilling funerary functions, to eulogising friends and fellow artists, or lamenting the waste of war: here are some of the finest examples of music written in mourning.