Hyperion CDA67375 · September 2003
Pärt - Triodion & other choral works
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Awards
- Best in Choral Category, Gramophone Awards 2004
Selections and Editors’ Choices
- BBC Music Magazine and BBC Radio 3 CD Review Top 20 Discs of 2003
- BBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month
- Gramophone Editor’s Choice
- Classic FM Magazine Best Buy, Opera and Vocal
- Music Week Disc of the Fortnight
- BBCi Album of the Week
- BBC Radio 3 CD Review Critics’ Choice 2003
Reviews
Klassik Heute2004Neues von Arvo Pärt, dem aus Estland stammenden, jetzt 68jährigen Repräsentanten einer kreativ auf minimalistisch-harmonischen Klangstrukturen basierenden Moderne. Alle hier im Januar des Jahres 2003 produzierten Beiträge sind…Read the review 
The Daily Telegraph2003This collection, a sequel to Polyphony’s all-Pärt CD for Hyperion, brings together choral music composed from 1996 to 2002. The period marked a widening of the range of languages Pärt set, and also a warming of his tonal…Read the review 
Choir and Organ2003I had never been to Venice before this summer, and the relentless beauty of the place overwhelmed me. This new CD, too, is relentlessly beautiful: just as one palazzo follows another on the Grand Canal, so here one polished gem…Read the review 
International Record Review2003I anticipate a considerable success for this disc. It brings together eight quite recent works by Pärt, and in doing so calls attention to the considerable variety to be found in them, to which Meurig Bowen’s informed notes…Read the review 
The Financial Times2003Triodion is the longest of eight works on this disc, and comprises three odes leading to a simple coda. Everything is pared down to the minimum here and the music always seems to have time to linger. Only the most pure and…Read the review - Music Week2003With six world premiere recordings to its credit, this disc would immediately attract attention even if the performances were not of the exceptional quality that they are here. Harmonic simplicity and the clear delivery of words…Read the review
bbc.co.uk2003There’s a quiet and cumulative power to these works, given performances of luminous purity by Polyphony and Stephen Layton. ‘There’s a line in this disc’s title track, from an Orthodox ode addressed to Saint Nicholas…Read the review 
The Sunday Times2003Polyphony’s earlier album devoted to the a cappella choral music of the Estonian cult composer featured pieces written between 1988 and 1991. This new release comprises works, some recorded here for the first time, of more recent…Read the review 
Classic FM Magazine2003If one word could stand for Arvo Part’s recent choral output, it would surely be inclusivity, not just because of the composers return to the simple austere harmonies favoured in his early sacred pieces (although that’s a…Read the review - BBC Music Magazine2003More than any other composer alive today Arvo Pärt has given us back the idea of eloquent beautiful simplicity. Granted, he can take his asceticism too far – sometimes numinous purity shades over into mere plainness. But with the…Read the review
NPR Classical Music Blog2014Silence is like fertile soil, which, as it were, awaits our creative act, our seed" Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt is one of the few living composers to find popularity beyond the borders of classical music. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and…Read the review
Recorded: January 2003
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: September 2003
Total duration: 77 minutes 23 seconds
Track list
- Dopo la vittoriaArvo Pärt (b1935)10'00
- Nunc dimittisArvo Pärt (b1935)7'33
- … which was the son of … And Jesus himself began to beArvo Pärt (b1935)7'30
- I am the true vineArvo Pärt (b1935)10'15
- Littlemore TractusArvo Pärt (b1935)6'28
- Triodion In the name of the FatherArvo Pärt (b1935)14'13
- My heart's in the highlandsArvo Pärt (b1935)9'11
- Salve reginaArvo Pärt (b1935)12'13
Recording details from Hyperion Records.