Pierce hasn’t been alone in declaring a fidelity to Pärt. In 2009, former Public Image Ltd bassist Jah Wobble cited Pärt as his choice of Sunday morning music. He was moved to tears while listening.

Despite the tyranny that spread from Soviet Russia through Eastern Europe in the 20th century, music bloomed and imaginations flew. This March the Australian Chamber Orchestra will perform the music ...

In the worldof contemporary art music, Arvo Pärt cuts a perplexing figure. Devout, media shy and reclusive, he is also one of the most commercially successful composers alive. The 74-year-old Estonian ...

Darf Ich Viktoria Mullova, Violin Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Arvo Pärt, Composer Paavo Järvi, Conductor Fratres Paavo Järvi, Conductor Arvo Pärt, Composer Viktoria Mullova, Violin Estonian ...

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RICHARD TOGNETTI LEADING THE AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA THROUGH PERFORMANCES OF ARVO PÄRT'S TABULA RASA AND SHOSTAKOVICH'S CHAMBER SYMPHONY Directed by Matisse Ruby and filmed at ...

In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where Lediņš had been ...

(The Conversation) — The Estonian composer has written some of the world’s most performed contemporary classical music. Many fans may not realize how deep the religious influences on his work are.

Arvo Pärt is one of the few living composers to find popularity beyond the borders of classical music. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Bjork are big fans. Although the 78-year-old musician usually shies ...

Emigrating from the Soviet Union to the West in January 1980 with his wife, Nora, and their two small sons, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was stopped by border police at the Brest railroad station ...

Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1988, rev. 1991): O Spross aus Isais Wurzel Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1988, rev. 1991): O Schlüssel Davids Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1988, rev. 1991): O Morgenstern ...