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| Composer | Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935) |
| Period | Contemporary |
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ParisCredo / Jaap van Zweden #4
Pärt, Menut, Janulytė
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Lionel Sow; Jean-Guihen Queyras; Vanessa Wagner; Chœur de Radio France; Jaap van Zweden
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Estonian Festival Orchestra make Carnegie Hall debut with Arvo Pärt
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.
Alsop and Kaufmann lead the Last Night revelries
Flags, balloons and musical revelry bring the BBC Proms season to a close.
Cornelius Meister's Sibelius at the Vienna Musikverein doesn't quite take flight
Jean Sibelius is purported to have written part of his Symphony no. 5 after having witnessed a large flock of swans take flight from his home in rural Finland. Whether this story is apocryphal or not, the “swan theme” has become part of the Western musical subconscious, with quotations showing up in jazz and pop music for much of the last century.