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Arvo Pärt’s Lamentate Plays Carnegie Hall in New York Premiere

Feb. 02, 2012

Arvo Pärt’s <em>Lamentate</em> Plays Carnegie Hall in New York Premiere

The worldwide celebrations of Phillip Glass’ 75th birthday on January 31 included a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. Before the audience had heard even a note of Glass’s music at Carnegie on this night, however, the first half was devoted to Arvo Pärt, whose Lamentate for piano and orchestra was performed by the American Composers Orchestra, led by Dennis Russell Davies and featuring pianist Maki Namekawa, in its New York City premiere.

Pärt wrote Lamentate in 2002 as a reflection on the huge, enigmatic sculpture Marsyas by Anish Kapoor, which he created in the turbine hall of the Tate Modern in London. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times writes of the performance at Carnegie:

... a halting 40-minute meditation on mortality… the score has ample attractions, including lustrous, hypnotic string writing, a recurring (and disquieting) distant timpani rumbling and a graceful piano part — often a single, singing line — played with understated eloquence by Maki Namekawa.

Learn more on the life and music of Arvo Pärt by visiting www.universaledition.com

Arvo Pärt
Lamentate (2002)
for piano and orchestra
3.2.2.2-4.2.2.0-timp.4perc-str
37'

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