Arvo Pärt
Orient & Occident
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*2024 stock. Deluxe packaging* “An exceptional and musically important release” – Gramophone, Editor’s Choice. The long-awaited new album by the great Estonian composer brings new colours to his unique body of work. The purity and the sense of timelessness remain; the harmonic palette is subtly expanded. These recordings of “Orient & Occident”, “Ein Wallfahrtslied” and “Como cierva sedienta” have been widely praised.
Format
Track 1:
Wallfahrtslied / Pilgrims' Song (1984)
version for men's choir and string orchestra (2001)
in memory of Grigori Kromanov
Track 2:
Orient & Occident (2000)
for string orchestra
for Saulius Sondeckis and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Tracks 3 to 7:
Como cierva sedienta (1998)
version for women's choir and orchestra
for Caecilia
Recorded May 28 - June 1, 2001
Berwaldhallen, Swedish Radio, Stockholm
Co-production ECM Records / Swedish Radio
℗ 2002 ECM Records GmbH
© 2002 ECM Records GmbH
Release notes
Track 1: Wallfahrtslied / Pilgrims' Song (1984) version for men's choir and string orchestra (2001) in memory of Grigori Kromanov Track 2: Orient & Occident (2000) for string orchestra for Saulius Sondeckis and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra Tracks 3 to 7: Como cierva sedienta (1998) version for women's choir and orchestra for Caecilia Recorded May 28 - June 1, 2001 Berwaldhallen, Swedish Radio, Stockholm Co-production ECM Records / Swedish Radio ℗ 2002 ECM…
| 1 | Wallfahrtslied / Pilgrim's Song | 8:49 | |
| 2 | Orient & Occident | 7:05 | |
| Como Cierva Sedienta | |||
| 3 | I | 7:16 | |
| 4 | II | 4:09 | |
| 5 | III | 5:36 | |
| 6 | IV | 3:27 | |
| 7 | V | 10:53 | |
- Swedish Radio Choir
- Choir
- Arvo Pärt
- Composed By, Liner Notes [German]
- Tõnu Kaljuste
- Conductor
- Sascha Kleis
- Design
- Anders Hägglöf
- Engineer
- Rune Sundvall
- Engineer
- Jan B. Larsson
- Engineer [Tonmeister]
- Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart
- Liner Notes [English Translation]
- Martine Passelaigue
- Liner Notes [French Translation]
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestra
- Kalju Suur
- Photography By
- Manfred Eicher
- Producer
- Helena Olsson
- Soprano Vocals (3 to 7)
