Arvo Pärt
Born: 11th September 1935, Paide, Jarva County, Estonia
Nationality: Estonian
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. His most performed works include Fratres (1977), Spiegel im Spiegel (1978), and Für Alina (1976). From 2011 to 2018, and again in 2022, Pärt was the most performed living composer in the world, and the second most performed in 2019, after John Williams.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Pärt
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Further Reading: Pärt
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Arvo Pärt from Eva Ollikainen and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
17th Apr 2026
Four very different symphonic works show Pärt's imaginative and harmonic languages changing over time - from the modernist and avant-garde early in his career through to more pensive and spiritual works.
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Winter 2025
18th Dec 2025
In our latest round-up of contemporary music releases, Ben celebrates the work of two nonagenarians, explores the colour spectrum through the orchestra, enjoys pictorial British chamber music, and find the twenty-first-century symphony to be in rude health.
Popular Genres: Pärt
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Choral
Concertos
Popular Works: Pärt
- ... which was the son of ... (11)
- Adagio (after Mozart) (18)
- Annum per annum (K-G-C-S-A) (12)
- Berliner Messe (18)
- Bogoróditse Djévo (34)
- Cantate Domino (13)
- Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (52)
- Collage on B-A-C-H (15)
- Da pacem Domine (26)
- De profundis (27)
- Dopo la vittoria (12)
- Festina Lente (18)
- Fratres for string orchestra and percussion (13)
- Fratres for String Quartet (12)
- Fratres for Violin & Piano (28)
- Fratres for Violin, Strings & Percussion (17)
- Für Alina (83)
- Für Anna Maria (17)
- I am the true vine (11)
- Lamentate (10)
- Magnificat (71)
- Most Holy Mother of God (11)
- My Heart's in the Highlands (10)
- Nunc dimittis (34)
- Pari intervallo (43)
- Partita, Op. 2 (12)
- Psalom (10)
- Seven Magnificat Antiphons (19)
- Solfeggio (18)
- Spiegel im Spiegel (148)
- Stabat Mater (16)
- Summa (55)
- Symphony No. 3 (12)
- Tabula Rasa (31)
- The Beatitudes (38)
- The Deer's Cry (20)
- The Woman With The Alabaster Box (23)
- Tribute to Caesar (11)
- trivium (13)
- Variations for the Healing of Arinushka (35)
Recent Best Sellers: Pärt
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Special offer. Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
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Special offer. Arvo Pärt: Complete Symphonies
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Eva Ollikainen
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th April 2026
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J.S. Bach & Pärt: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Christoph Koncz (violin), Peter von Wienhardt (piano), Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Katia & Marielle Labèque - 55
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque (piano)
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New Releases: Pärt
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New. Pilgrimage
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen
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New. Pilgrimage
Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
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New. The Paths of Silence
Philippe Guilhon-Herbert (soloist), Nicolas Prost (soloist), Adrien Lajoumard (soloist), Anne Lecapelain (soloist), Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach (soloist), David Louwerse (soloist), François Daudet (soloist), Benoit d'Hau (soloist), Eric Aubier (soloist), Orchestre des pays de Savoie, Nivolas Chalvin, Nicolas Chalvin, Nicolas. Chalvin
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New. Prayers
Ophelie Gaillard (cello), Swiss Cellists, Émilie Aridon-Kociołek
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Future Releases: Pärt
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Coming soon. The King's Singers Live At Christmas
King's Singers
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Coming soon. Live in Venice
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
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Coming soon. Pages of a Biography
Gidon Kremer (violin), Geneva Lewis (violin), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica
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Coming soon. Le Violon Roi 2
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Edgar Moreau (cello), Guillaume Bellom (piano), Nolwenn Leroy (vocals), Nicholas Angelich (piano), David Fray (piano), Lahav Shani (piano), Kian Soltani (cello), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Brussels Philharmonic, Les Siècles, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Quatuor Ebène, London Symphony Orchestra, Stéphane Denève, Duncan Ward, Daniel Harding, Sir Simon Rattle
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