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MITO SettembreMusica Features Three Arvo Pärt Premieres

Sep. 01, 2011

MITO SettembreMusica Features Three Arvo Pärt Premieres

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, on September 9 and 10, the 5th Annual MITO SettembreMusica festival offers the first performances of three newly orchestrated Avro Pärt works: Beatus Petronius, Salve Regina and Statuit ei Dominus. Conductor Tito Ceccherini leads the Torino Vocalensemble and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino in both performances.

When festival director Enzo Restagno invited Pärt to contribute to the MITO Festival, Pärt suggested a combined performance of these three previously written and closely related festive works for choir and orchestra. To celebrate this year's theme of exploring the past, present and the future, the festival commissioned new orchestral arrangements of them. 

In re-orchestrating Beatus Petronius and Statuit ei Dominus, Pärt retained the well-defined structural proportions and divided both choir and orchestra each into two sections. By adding a string orchestra on one side and a wind section on the other, the composer clearly emphasizes, through the spatial configuration, the antiphonal character of both pieces. In its new version for choir and orchestra, Salve Regina's original organ part is now in the string orchestra with a new additional instrument, the celesta, adding a bell-like tone.

Go to www.universaledition.com for more on the life and work of Arvo Pärt.

For information on MITO Settembre Music, visit www.mitosettembremusica.it.

Arvo Pärt
Beatus Petronius (1990, arr. 2011)
for two choirs (SATB), eight woodwind instruments, tubular bells and string orchestra
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5'

Statuit ei Dominus (1990 arr. 2011)
for two choirs (SATB), eight woodwind instruments and string orchestra
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Salve Regina (2001, arr. 2011)
for SATB chorus, celesta and string orchestra

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