Arvo Part: Fratres; John Corigliano: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Paul Moravec: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Albert Glinsky: Toccata-Scherzo; Olivier Messiaen: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus Maria ...

Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...

CPR Classical's SummerFest season finale this Saturday features a live broadcast from the Aspen Music Festival, with music director Robert Spano conducting music by Beethoven, Mussorgsky and Arvo Part ...

Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Japanese-born pianist Naoko Sonoda released a new digital single, Arvo Pärt: Fratres, on Deutsche Grammophon. The release marks Cañón-Valencia's debut ...

Arvo Pärt is one of those composers you might think you know: a reclusive, extravagantly bearded Estonian who's ensconced in a world of so-called "holy minimalism" – a reverie of simplicity that ...

Arvo Pärt’s otherworldly, radiantly euphonious music has become one of the characteristic sounds of the age. It’s regularly pillaged for film scores, and works such as Fratres have been top-selling ...