Arvo Pärt: "Für Alina" performed by Hayk Melikyan
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The Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier and NYYD Quartet at Fundação Gulbenkian
Theatre of Voices and NYYD Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier will be tomorrow night in Lisbon, at Fundação Gulbenkian, with a program that includes early music and its influence on the work of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. This program is therefore rooted in my very first experience of Pärt’s music. It is not however intended as the illustration of an idea, but rather as a concert of musical items that suit each other, both in contrast and similarity. There is an underlying sympathy between the two aesthetics at work, even though Pärt’s belongs to our time, and the medieval does not - except insofar as we make it contemporary whenever we perform it. … Broadly speaking this program is a synthesis of Pärt and early medieval music. The medieval pieces are chosen to reflect the influence of that sound-world on Pärt’s music and the technique he created called ‘tintinnabuli’. There is perhaps no other kind of music which so perfectly fits with Pärt’s than this kind of selection o...