Arvo Pärt: Babel

[This disc] captures Pärt's profoundly gentle musical sensibility and his remarkable capacity to build restrained yet beguiling harmonies from the simplest of materials, all handled with skill... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 20th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: COL20427
Label: Col Legno
Length: 57 minutes

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Pärt: Magnificat

Work length8:31

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Beatitudines

Work length10:03

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Nunc dimittis

Work length7:08

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Drei Hirtenkinderaus Fátima

Work length1:37

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: The Deer's Cry

Work length5:39

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Da pacem Domine

Work length5:52

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten

Work length9:08

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Littlemore Tractus

Work length6:33

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

Pärt: Vater Unser

Work length2:49

Wilten Boys' Choir, Wiltener Sängerknaben
Johannes Stecher

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This is the first ever recording of Arvo Pärt’s wonderful vocal music performed by a boys’ choir.The year of release of this album is also the year when the Estonian composer celebrates his eightieth birthday. More than four decades ago, the musician Arvo Pärt fell silent, and went into retreat for eight years. His silence gave rise to a new kind of music, which has gained him international fame. “I have discovered that it is enough if a single note is beautifully played,” Pärt once said. The Innsbruck-based Wilten Boys’ Choir is one of the oldest and most highly regarded boys’ choirs in Europe. Its beginnings date back to the 13th century. Today the choir has some 180 members, who are trained in six groups (including junior choirs, concert choirs, and young male voices).

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September 2015

[This disc] captures Pärt's profoundly gentle musical sensibility and his remarkable capacity to build restrained yet beguiling harmonies from the simplest of materials, all handled with skill and confidence by the Wilten Boys' Choir

Arvo Pärt: Babel

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