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ComposerPärt, Arvo (b. 1935)
PeriodContemporary
Year1977
Work typeOrchestral
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LondonBBC Singers and Britten Sinfonia: Britten Saint Nicolas

© Sebastian Nevols
Pärt, Britten
Britten Sinfonia; Owain Park; Benjamin Hulett; BBC Singers

LeicesterLeicester: Manfred Honeck and Vivi Vassileva

© Julia Wesely
Pärt, MacMillan, Beethoven
Philharmonia Orchestra; Manfred Honeck; Vivi Vassileva

LondonBeethoven 7 & MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

© DD Rosenberg
Pärt, MacMillan, Beethoven
Philharmonia Orchestra; Manfred Honeck; Vivi Vassileva
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Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Kristiina Poska rehearses the Royal Scottish National Orchestra © RSNO | Clara Cowen
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

Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra in Carnegie Hall © Fadi Kheir
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

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tõnu Kaljuste © Kaupo Kikkas

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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The art of memory: classical music for mourning

Cover of the first edition of Le tombeau de Couperin (1918) designed by Ravel himself © Public domain | Bibliothèque nationale de France
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.