Arvo Pärt – The Symphonies
A monographic album of symphonies by one of the most outstanding contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt. The recording of the album was preceded by several months of collaboration with Tõnu Kaljuste and the NFM, related to the celebration of the world-famous composer’s 80th birthday.
Arvo Pärt – The Symphonies
A monographic album of symphonies by one of the most outstanding contemporary composers, Arvo Pärt. The recording of the album was preceded by several months of collaboration with Tõnu Kaljuste and the NFM, related to the celebration of the world-famous composer’s 80th birthday.
Album premiere: 2018
Publisher: ECM
Conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste
Performers: NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
This disc, definitively conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, who seems to have become the composer’s preferred interpreter, is the first to include all four of Pärt’s symphonies, and hence traces the early part of that stylistic journey.
Kaljuste and his orchestra are just as convincing when placidly unwrapping those bundles of archaic-sounding melody [in the Fourth Symphony], as he is confronting the angularities and contrapuntal clashes of the earlier works.
Andrew Clements
The Guardian, 19 April 2018
- International Classical Music Award 2019 in the Contemporary category, nomination for Fryderyk 2019 in the best Polish album abroad category
