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Arvo Part

Symphony No. 4

Label: ECM New Series

Format: CD

Genre: Compositional

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*2024 stock. Deluxe packaging* Premiere recordings of Arvo Pärt’s music belong on ECM New Series. This recording of the 4th Symphony – Pärt’s first symphonic work in more than 30 years – documents also the premiere concert performance at L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Before Pärt started work on the composition, his thoughts had been circling around texts related to guardian angels. Then he received the commission from Los Angeles, a city whose very name means ‘the angels’. His decision to make the Canon of the Guardian Angel the foundation of the new piece was a foregone conclusion. The 4th Symphony is augmented on disc by a new montage of “fragments” of Kanon Pokajanen, a piece which Pärt feels is closely related to the symphony. “To my mind, the two works belong together and form a stylistic unity."

Details
Cat. number: ECM 2160, 476 3957, ECM New Series 2160
Year: 2010
Notes:
Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles" (2008) Dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky Fragments from Kanon Pokajanen (1997) Dedicated to Tõnu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Symphony No. 4 Concert recording January 2009 Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles Fragments from Kanon Pokajanen Recorded June 1997 Niguliste Church, Tallinn An ECM Production All liner texts © ECM Records 2010 Publisher: Universal Edition, Wien ℗ 2010 ECM Records GmbH © 2010 ECM Records GmbH Printed in Germany O-card package with standard jewel case