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.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous21 September 2015 at 21:19

    É que fica mesmo muito bem, aqui no Ultima Thule.

    Lindo.

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  2. Mário R. Gonçalves21 September 2015 at 23:11

    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.

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  3. Mister Twister25 September 2015 at 21:56

    Actually, Stewart Copeland is the greatest composer of our times.

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  4. Mário R. Gonçalves26 September 2015 at 16:18

    Can't agree with that, sorry.

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