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Arvo Pärt

Reviews (3)

BBC music magazine

2015 September

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Kate Wakeling

2015 September

"This fine collection of choral works gathers together a rich array of Pärt's works for voice, featuring a number of surprisingly strident, urgent works amid Pärt's otherwise controlled musical expression ... The disc otherwise captures Pärt's profoundly gentle musical sensibility and his remarkable capacity to build restrained yet beguiling harmonies from the simplest of materials, all handled with skill and confidence by the Wilten Boys' Choir".

Fono Forum

2015 September

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Clemens Haustein

2015 September

"Erstmals werden in diesem Jahr wichtige Chorwerke Pärts in einer Einspielung mit Kinderchor präsentiert ... Ein unschuldiger, unwissender Ton ist bei den Knaben zu hören, von dem man nicht recht weiss, ob er wirklich so gut zu Arvo Pärts Musik passt. Bei Pärt ist es doch immer ein Wissender, Schuldiger, der sich in den Zustand der Unwissenheit, Unschuld hineinmeditieren möchte".

The gramophone

2015 August

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Malcolm Riley

2015 August

"For some listeners, 57 minutes' worth of Pärt may be too much to take in one sitting ... The highlight of the disc is the affecting setting of By the Waters of Babylon. Its soaring phrases perfectly match the acoustics of the Tyrolean churches ... Another bonus is Stecher's splendid organplaying ... A mixed result, therefore, which Pärt completists will, though, surely relish".