Sunday, 20 September 2015
Arvo Pärt, Passacaglia
Arvo Pärt is undoubtfully the greatest composer of our times. He was born is Estonia, in 1935, and works mainly on sacred classical music, in a minimalist style.
Somehow I find him adequated to our purposes here at Ultima Thule: the music of Pärt talks of remoteness and distance, isolation and meditation, but also of discovery and new horizons.
This short Passacaglia is one of his most brilliant musical works; dissonations in a crescendo rythm, like in a breathless ride, away from or to reach something, leave a final feeling of fulfillment.
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4 comments:
É que fica mesmo muito bem, aqui no Ultima Thule.
Lindo.
Obrigado, e que bom saber que cá vem, humming. Pareceu-me que há muito de procura da longínqua terra prometida em Pärt, e não falo só da saga bíblica, falo sobretudo da uma saga nórdica, escandinava, eslava.
Actually, Stewart Copeland is the greatest composer of our times.
Can't agree with that, sorry.
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