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Arvo Pärt Days 2019

Sep. 01, 2019

Arvo Pärt Days 2019

The Arvo Pärt Days 2019 festival opened on August 31, presenting a large number of concerts featuring a wide range of music by Arvo Pärt, as well as works by others. The opening night of the festival featured Thomas Adés conducting the Estonian National Symphony orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a program featuring Pärt's Stabat Mater and Adés's Totentanz, the latter inspired by Bernt Notke's medieval painting, one of the versions of which can be found in Estonia in St Nicholas's Church in Tallinn. Additionally, the program included the world premiere of "Death Dance" - a dance piece choreographed and performed by Ingmar Jõela for this occasion, as well as appearances by mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn and baritone Mark Stone.

The festival featured several other highlights. On September 2, composer-conductor James MacMillan led the Tallin Chamber Orchestra in a performance of the concert version of his opera Clemency alongside Pärt's Sarah Was Ninety Years Old. On September 4 and 11 young Estonian composer, Pärt Uusberg, led the same orchestra in a new piece written for the festival and several of Arvo Pärt's most influential works including Magnificat and Te Deum. Finally, special concerts on September 5 and 7 featured countertenor David James performing early music by Purcell and Perotin as well as works by Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars, and others.

Listen to Arvo Pärt's Te Deum:

(Te Deum/Pärt/Zenana/Nielsen/Akademisk Orkester/Akademik Kor)

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Arvo Pärt
Stabat Mater (1985/2008)
for mixed choir (SAT) and string orchestra 
24' 

Sarah Was Ninety Years Old (1977/1990)
for 3 voices (STT), percussion and organ
25' 

Magnificat (1989)
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
7'

Te Deum (1984-1984/1992)
for 3 choirs, prepared piano, string orchestra and tape
30' 

Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977/1980)
for string orchestra and bell
6' 

Nunc Dimittis
for mixed choir (SATB) a capella
7' 

Es sang vor langen Jahren (1984)
for alto or countertenor, violin and viola
4' 

Pari Intervallo (1976/1980)
for organ
6' 

My Heart's in the Highlands (2000)
for countertenor or alto and organ
8:30' 

Kanon Pokajanen (1997)
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
90-110' 

Fratres (1977/1980)
for violin and piano
11'

Four Easy Dances (1956/1957)
for piano
6' 

Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
for violin and piano
10' 

Für Alina (1976)
for piano
2' 

Trisagion (1992/1994)
for string orchestra
12' 

L'Abbé Agathon (2004/2008)
for female choir (SA) and string orchestra
15' 

Tabula Rasa (1977)
for 2 violins, string orchestra and prepared piano
27' 

Vater Unser (2005/2013)
for boy's voice or countertenor and string orchestra
2:50' 

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