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A serene setting for choir which features a simple step like melody with a beautifully flowing solo soprano line above. The musical setting uses two lullaby-like rhythmical ostinatos which run right t...

A gentle, reflective setting that has a three-part structure with a short coda. Three and four part rising choral lines at the start, contrast with a central melodic section in the sopranos, supported...

In this setting of Psalm 117 the composer has created an unusually serene and ethereal setting considering the meaning of the text. Most composers that have written settings of this Psalm Praise the L...

This work is a reflective setting of a popular blessing used regularly in both church services and within choral concerts. Scored for unaccompanied mixed choir, the four parts are often divided to cre...

Be still is a wonderful setting of Psalm 46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God." The music begins very quietly a cappella and thus reflects the title. Then the violin enters and steers with the voi...

Jesus and the traders, a pillar of 20th-century a cappella choral music, tells the familiar story of Jesus and the money-changers. In addition to the harmonic complexity of the work - indeed, this is...

Jesus and the traders, a pillar of 20th-century a cappella choral music, tells the familiar story of Jesus and the money-changers. In addition to the harmonic complexity of the work - indeed, this is...

Written for the 900th anniversary of the foundation of Norwich Cathedral in 1996, this setting from Chapter 15 of St John's Gospel shows Pärt at his most controlled. lnspired by the strength and simpl...

Pärt's Solfeggio for mixed a cappella-choir - sung on the solmization syllables Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si - was composed in 1963 and premiered in Tallinn (Estonia) by the Estonian Radio Choir (director: E...

Chorpartitur - St Luke 7, 36-50

This is Pärt's musical interpretation of the psalms 117 and 131 in slavic language. 117 (116) O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us...

The Woman With the Alabaster Box and Tribute to Caesar were both commissioned for the 350th anniversary of the Karlstad Diocese in Sweden in 1997. Both are settings of texts from the Gospel according...

Tribute to Caesar and The Woman With the Alabaster Box were both commissioned for the 350th anniversary of the Karlstad Diocese in Sweden in 1997. Both are settings of texts from the Gospel according...

In 1976 Pärt responded to the death of Benjamin Britten (whom he never met) with the composition of one of his most powerful - and disarmingly simple - works, the Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten f...