As a young composer Arvo Part wrote complex, aggressively modern music. Eventually he began to feel despair over that style of writing, so he stopped composing and spent several years listening to medieval music. He returned to composition a changed man, and his subsequent music had a completely different sound. On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll hear Fratres, one of the first pieces Arvo Part wrote after his musical conversion.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Jean Sibelius: Humoresque, Op. 89, No. 1
Joseph Swesen, violin; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
RCA 60444
Johann Sebastian Bach: Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Andras Schiff, piano; Camerata Bern; Erich Hobarth, conductor
Music Hall, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Osvaldo Golijov: Lullaby and Doina from The Man Who Cried
St. Lawrence String Quartet: Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Anthony Manzo, double bass
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, SC
Jean Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hannu Lintu, Chief Conductor Designate
Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Hour 2
Arvo Part: Fur Alina
Bruce Levingston, piano
Still Sound
DSL 92148
Antonio Estevez: Midday in Llano
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Sao Paulo Concert Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
John Dowland: Mr. Henry Noell his Galiard; Mr. Giles Hoby his Galiard; Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral
Fretwork; Richard Boothby, director
Music Before 1800, Corpus Christi Catholic Church, New York, NY
Veljo Tormis: Vepsa rajad (Vespian Paths): 2. Venesse pugiv neiu (The Maid Striving to the Boat)
musica intima
Egilse de la Purification, Repentigny, Quebec, Canada
Arvo Part: Fratres
Amstel Saxophone Quartet
Arvo Part: Dopo la Vittoria
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Daniel Reuss, artistic director and chief conductor
Saint Paul Cathedral, Saint Paul, MN
Cyrillus Kreek: Mu suda, arka ules (My heart, awake)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Daniel Reuss, artistic director and chief conductor
Saint Paul Cathedral, Saint Paul, MN
Miina Harma: We Cannot Be Silent
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Daniel Reuss, artistic director and chief conductor
Saint Paul Cathedral, Saint Paul, MN
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