Cover: Illustration by Jennie Cockram.
Hyperion CDA66960 · May 1998
Pärt - Berliner Messe & Magnificat
Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Press
Gramophone Magazine1998Arvo Part's music is about equilibrium and balance ‚ balance between consonance and dissonance, between converging voices and, in the context of a CD such as this, between the individual works programmed. Stephen Layton has…Read the review 
Choir and Organ1998Far from being inaccessible, Arvo Pärt's music is mesmerising, and this collection immerses the listener into a deep pool of tone colours. Pärt's De Profundis is the most powerful setting of Psalm 130 I've yet encountered. Sombre…Read the review 
American Record Guide1998Far from being inaccessible, Arvo Pärt's music is mesmerising, and this collection immerses the listener into a deep pool of tone colours. Pärt's De Profundis is the most powerful setting of Psalm 130 I've yet encountered. Sombre…Read the review 
BBC Music Magazine1998Pärt’s music remains an object of unstinting wonderRead the review 
Organists Review1998Committed and definitive performances of this intense music.Read the review 
NPR Classical Music Blog2014Silence is like fertile soil, which, as it were, awaits our creative act, our seed" Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt is one of the few living composers to find popularity beyond the borders of classical music. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and…Read the review
Recorded: Various dates
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: May 1998
Total duration: 73 minutes 25 seconds
Track list
- Berliner Messe: KyrieArvo Pärt (b1935)3'26
- Berliner Messe: GloriaArvo Pärt (b1935)3'42
- Berliner Messe: Erster AlleluiaversArvo Pärt (b1935)0'54
- Berliner Messe: Zweiter AlleluiaversArvo Pärt (b1935)1'09
- Berliner Messe: Veni, Sancte SpiritusArvo Pärt (b1935)5'33
- Berliner Messe: CredoArvo Pärt (b1935)3'52
- Berliner Messe: SanctusArvo Pärt (b1935)3'23
- Berliner Messe: Agnus DeiArvo Pärt (b1935)3'08
- The BeatitudesArvo Pärt (b1935)7'01
- Annum per Annum: EinleitungArvo Pärt (b1935)1'15
- Annum per Annum: K[yrie]Arvo Pärt (b1935)1'46
- Annum per Annum: G[loria]Arvo Pärt (b1935)1'34
- Annum per Annum: C[redo]Arvo Pärt (b1935)1'38
- Annum per Annum: S[anctus]Arvo Pärt (b1935)1'39
- Annum per Annum: A[gnus]Arvo Pärt (b1935)2'53
- Annum per Annum: CodaArvo Pärt (b1935)1'11
- MagnificatArvo Pärt (b1935)7'04
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O WeisheitArvo Pärt (b1935)2'00
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O AdonaiArvo Pärt (b1935)2'22
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O Spross aus Isais WurzelArvo Pärt (b1935)1'06
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O Schlüssel DavidsArvo Pärt (b1935)2'30
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O MorgensternArvo Pärt (b1935)2'27
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O König aller VölkerArvo Pärt (b1935)1'19
- Seven Magnificat-Antiphons: O ImmanuelArvo Pärt (b1935)3'14
- De profundisArvo Pärt (b1935)7'19
Recording details from Hyperion Records.