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Meurig Bowen's notes observe that choral pieces composed in the 1990s suggested Pärt was moving into 'more complex, exotic harmonic territory'.
Some of his music began to give a glimpse of what... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 7th Sep 2003
Catalogue No: CDA67375
Label: Hyperion
Length: 78 minutes

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November 2003

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Pärt: Dopo la vittoria

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Pärt: Nunc dimittis

Work length7:40

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Pärt: ... which was the son of ...

Work length7:38

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Pärt: I am the true vine

Work length10:24

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Pärt: Littlemore Tractus

Work length6:37

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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

Pärt: Triodion

Work length14:23

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Pärt: My Heart's in the Highlands

Work length9:18

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David James (countertenor), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)

Pärt: Salve Regina

Work length12:13

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Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Polyphony
Stephen Layton

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A new release from Polyphony, with Stephen Layton at the helm, always brings with it an assurance of singing of the highest possible calibre. Bring together a choir of such quality and the composer responsible for some of the most beautiful, transcendent music ever written, and the resultant disc is surely what must be one of, if not the most spectacular releases of the year. New works from Arvo Part are invariably cherished, and this disc contains no fewer than five world premiere recordingsDopo la vittoria, Nunc dimittis, Littlemore Tractus, My heart's in the Highlands and Salve Regina. It was recorded in the presence of the enraptured composer earlier this year at the Temple Church, London. This is a disc of achingly lovely music at its most mesmericprepare to be stunned.

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Meurig Bowen's notes observe that choral pieces composed in the 1990s suggested Pärt was moving into 'more complex, exotic harmonic territory'.
Some of his music began to give a glimpse of what was described as 'an attractively post- Minimalist aspect' of the composer's recent work.
All rather premature, perhaps, since, as Bowen acknowledges, Pärt subsequently returned to a more strictly diatonic, triadic approach.
Even so, the staccato, carol-like episodes bracketing Dopo La Vittoria, commissioned in 1991 and delivered in 1997, come as a shock, but the bulk of the piece is more recognisably by Pärt, and the Nunc dimittis, with its lovely, lambent solo part for soprano Elin Thomas, evoking Allegri's Miserere, assuages all doubts.
The idea of Pärt setting Burns might surprise, but My heart's in the Highlands, with its serene, Pachelbel-like organ line and pellucid vocal by countertenor David James, is a triumph. In the hymn-like Littlemore Tractus and Salve Regina, warm melodies and bursts of colourful chords mellow Pärt's sound without detracting from its sublime, ethereal beauty. Polyphony's performance is gorgeous.

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