ECM Records ARVO PART: MUSICA SELECTA CD

Composer Arvo Pärt and producer Manfred Eicher have maintained their creative partnership for more than thirty years.  Eicher launched ECM New Series in 1984 as a platform for Pärt’s music, bringing the Estonian composer to the world’s attention with Tabula Rasa.  Since that epochal release, all first recordings of Pärt’s major works have been made for ECM, with the composer’s committed participation.  In this special double album, issued on Pärt’s birthday, Eicher revisits episodes from their shared musical quest, evoking fresh associations from juxtapositions of pieces in his dramaturgical sequence, as we are invited to hear the music anew.  Compositions heard here include the legendary ECM premiere recordings of Es sang vor langen Jahren, Für Alina, Mein Weg, Kanon Pokajanen, Silouans Song, Fratres, Alleluia-Tropus, Trisagion, Beatus Petronius,  Wallfahrtslied/Pilgrims‘ Song,  Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Magnificat, Festina Lente, Lamentate, Stabat Mater, Da Pacem Domine, and a previously unreleased version of Most Holy Mother of God.   

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Susan Bickley Alto

Alexander Malter Piano

Tõnu Kaljuste Conductor

Gidon Kremer Violin

Keith Jarrett Piano

Vox Clamantis Choir

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

Saulius Sondeckis Conductor

Latvian Radio Choir

Sinfonietta Riga Orchestra

The Hilliard Ensemble

Vladimir Mendelssohn Viola

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra Chamber Orchestra

RECORDED

1983-2011