Arvo Part: Fratres; John Corigliano: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Paul Moravec: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Albert Glinsky: Toccata-Scherzo; Olivier Messiaen: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus Maria ...

Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...

CPR Classical's SummerFest season finale this Saturday features a live broadcast from the Aspen Music Festival, with music director Robert Spano conducting music by Beethoven, Mussorgsky and Arvo Part ...

Arvo Pärt's Fratres ("Brethren") dates from 1977 and is an early example of the meditative, mystical style he was developing at the time, known as tintinnabuli (after the Latin word for "bells"). It ...

Arvo Pärt is one of those composers you might think you know: a reclusive, extravagantly bearded Estonian who's ensconced in a world of so-called "holy minimalism" – a reverie of simplicity that ...

Arvo Pärt’s otherworldly, radiantly euphonious music has become one of the characteristic sounds of the age. It’s regularly pillaged for film scores, and works such as Fratres have been top-selling ...