Listen to this performance, how it holds the silences between the opening statements of "Christ, with me" for an example of just how compelling these performances are: Pärt: The Deer's Cry One of Pärt's most famous choral works is The Deer's Cry. Its restraint (it often hovers on the borders of audibility) seems to cut to the heart of what Pärt is all about: Pärt: Sequentia Scored for percussion and string orchestra, Pärt's Sequentia (2005/19) is dedicated to Robert Wilson, Vadim Repin (there is a pronounced solo part for violin) and Andreas Mustonen. Jesus' words are heard via the angular lines of the bass voices the Pharisees are heard via full chorus. Premiered in 1997, it takes a passage from the Gospel of Matthew where the Pharisses question Jesus about the tribute. what's lovely is how this piece bleeds into Tribute to Caesar (composed alongside The Woman with the Alabaster Box - not on this disc - to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Karlstad Episcopacy in Sweden). The work is actually a modified canon (so the same melody is played, but at different speeds, which means you get faster versions of the melody played against slower versions: making haste slowly, one might say): Pä45: Festina lente Taking its title from an oxymoron, Festina lente (Make Haste Slowly), a phrase famously used by Augustus, the first Emperor of the Roman Empire. The text is from Luke and traces Jesus' lineage back to Adam and the Christian Godhead (family names and lineage are an especially important part of Icelandic culture) the repetitive text imparts a meditative aspect, while Pärt's setting is itself gloriously varied, climaxing in multi-voice polyphony: Pärt: Which was the son of. It was performed then by a youth choir, and Pärt chose to set the text in English. a 2000 piece for a cappella choir commissioned by the city of Reykjavík as part of their European Capital of Culture programme. While the booklet notes tell us much about the circumstances that gave rise to this disc, and thankfully provide texts and translations where appropriate, they don't actually tell us very much about the music which is where we hope blogs such as Classical Explorer may come in useful!. This new disc (released March 12) includes both vocal and instrumental works written between 19. See below for further details in relation to the Miserere. Early on in his output, Pärt used this in his now popular Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977) for string orchestra and bell. On a technical level, Pärt often achieves this in a four-part texture by having two voices play the notes of a single tried, while the other two move in a step-motion. Pärt is famous for his tintinnabuli style, which is heard here: a Minimalist-influenced application of various inversions of a chord that evokes the pealing of bells particularly in the overtones that such chiming brings with it ("tintinnabulum" is Latin for bell). And here is a double celebration on that label: the 85th birthday of Arvo Pärt (September 2020) and the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Chorus (May 2021)Īrvo Pärt's works are imbued with a deep, radiant spirituality. These discs are on BR-Klassik, the record label of the Bavarian Radio, the same label that brought us Mariss Janson's Bruckner Sixth Symphony recently. Now it is the turn of Arvo Pärt, the great Estonian master. I've only knew him for a relatively short time, but we shared a couple of memorable flights.going into the Magee "back country" strip in his 1956 182, and last year a great flight over northern Idaho and Lake Coeur d'Alene in his recently acquired PA-12.Įvery year around the 4th of July, he'd host a huge spaghetti feed in the hangar adjacent to his home, it attracted a lot of friends and an amazing assortment of aircraft.We met the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Howard Arman previously, in a lovely disc of Elgar, From the Bavarian Highlands and part-songs. He also recently completed a set of wings for a Standard J-1 rebuild. You might note all three of those are now in the WAAAM museum Hood River, Oregon.īefore I knew him, he built an aerobatic biplane and flew a lot of aerobatics. He flew this aircraft from NYC to SFO to celebrate the airmail anniversary along with Addison Pemberton's Boeing 40 and Ben Scotts's Stearman Speedmail.Īnd his last complete aircraft, an amazingly accurate Sopwith Pup replica he built in recognition of the WWI centennial: While not well known outside the Northwest and the antique aircraft community, he was extremely talented and prolific.Īmong his restorations were the sole Laird LC-1B-300Īnd one of the oldest airworthy Stearmans. Larry Howard, a retired dentist and antique aircraft builder/restorer passed away Friday.
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