Roberto Alagna, Morphing Orchestra, Andreas Scholl, Aleksandra Kurzak
AP277 - 1CD - 68" - Oct 28, 2022
Arvo Pärt, one of the world’s most performed living composers, will be eighty-seven in September. His music has been featured in many films, including Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre and Habemus Papam, Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza, Paul Thomas Andersson’s There will be blood, Denis Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares, and several films by Terrence Malick. A precursor of the Nordic minimalist school, he composes music that is modern, refined and deeply religious; he is the creator of the “tintinnabuli” compositional style.
Morphing Chamber Orchestra, an innovative ensemble in the fields of Classical music and crossover, led by its musical director Tomasz Wabnic, presents a selection of Pärt’s most famous works with an all-star cast: Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak and Andreas Scholl. They perform the Stabat Mater, a masterpiece of sacred music, presented here in a new arrangement approved by the composer. The programme also includes some beautiful songs – Vater Unser, Ein Wallfahrtslied and My Heart’s in the Highlands – performed by acclaimed countertenor Andreas Scholl, as well as some fine instrumental pieces: Spiegel im Spiegel, Fratres and Summa.
These highly committed musicians transport us to a dreamy Nordic world. The result is a pure delight!
ARVO PÄRT
1. Fratres
string orchestra and percussion
2. My Heart’s in the Highlands
countertenor, string trio, piano
3. Vater Unser
countertenor, string orchestra
4. Spiegel im Spiegel
viola, piano
5. Es sang vor langen Jahren
countertenor, violin, viola
6. Ein Wallfahrtslied
countertenor, string orchestra
7. Summa
string orchestra
8. Stabat Mater (adaptation Tomasz Wabnic, 2021)
countertenor, soprano, tenor, string orchestra
