Arvo Pärt
Symphony No. 4
LabelECM New SeriesGenreContemporary Composition
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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."
Format
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
Release 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…
| Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles" | |||
| 1 | Con Sublimità | 12:04 | |
| 2 | Affannoso | 14:12 | |
| 3 | Deciso | 8:45 | |
| 4 | Fragments From Kanon Pokajanen | 14:50 | |
- Arvo Pärt
- Composed By
- Sascha Kleis
- Design
- J. Bradford Robinson
- Liner Notes [English Translation]
- ECM Records
- Liner Notes [German]
- Michael Pärt
- Photography By [Liner Photo (Booklet Page 11)]
- Luciano Rossetti
- Photography By [Liner Photo (Booklet Page 14)]
- Gina Ferazzi
- Photography By [Liner Photo - For LA Times (Booklet Page 13)]
- Cesare Beccaria
- Text By [Quote In Booklet (Italian, English, German)]
