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PÄRT
Of pilgrims'
songs and
swarms of bees
New York: With a "Special tribute
to Arvo Pärt", the New York ensemble
Continuum, led by Joel Sachs,
will offer a cross-section of Arvo
Pärt's chamber and string music
at Hunter College on 5 Dec. The
programme includes: Wallfahrtslied
(in the rarely heard
quartet version), Summa, Es sang
vor langen Jahren, Passacaglia,
Darf ich…, Trisagion, Orient & Occident,
Silouan's Song, Fratres and
2 Wiegenlieder.
Paris: Pärt's latest work, L'abbé
Agathon for soprano and 8 cel-
pärt
los, will be given its first performance
in Paris (6 Dec 2004) by the
Octour de Violoncelles de Beauvais,
which also played the world première
in May 2004 with soloist Barbara
Hendricks. The soloist in Paris
will be Kaoli Isshiki. The private
French classical station Radio Classique
will broadcast the world première
concert on 16 December.
Copenhagen: Alexei Lubimov will
be the soloist in the Danish première
of Lamentate for piano and
orchestra with the Danish National
Symphony Orchestra/DR, c. Andrey
Boreyko, on 10 February.
Hamburg: A few days prior (23 January),
Andrey Boreyko conducts
the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
in Pärt's Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet
hätte for piano, wind quintet,
string orchestra and percussion.
In this work, Pärt quite unconventionally
writes out the B-A-C-H
motif as a string tremolo which
crescendos into a giant swarm of
bees. A calm, contemplative second
part concludes this 8-minute work.
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