It's no secret that many listeners have trouble warming up to contemporary classical music. But a few composers have cultivated styles more accessible for the average listener. Now in his 70s, ...
Arvo Pärt, one of the world's most honored living composers, recently recorded and released two new works on a CD called Lamentate, conducted by Andrey Boreyko. Music critic Tom Manoff says the pieces ...
It has taken Estonian composer Arvo Part the best part of forty years to pen a new symphony, his fourth, called 'Los Angeles.' And at 75 next month, the composer was on hand to receive an ...
A Cappella is the original format for choral singing. The five selections addressed here make 2016 one of the better years for this music. Kings College Cambridge -The King's Men Twelve Days of ...
The reclusive Arvo Part is now the second-most-performed classical composer in the world - Michael Putland/Getty Images This week, the world’s best-known living religious composer, the reclusive ...
This past Saturday, the Belgian National Orchestra performed a concert dedicated to Arvo Pärt in honor of his 90th birthday. Titled "Arvo Pärt 90!" the performance was part of this year's ...
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has, for the fourth year running, been given the title of the “world’s most performed living composer” by the classical music event database, Bachtrack. Placing 37th in the ...
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Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current ...