Dad passed away some months ago, a devastating cancer. During his funeral, i heard this masterpiece in my mind again and again: the waves, the stream and its brutal silence at the end, just like a peaceful river fading into the sea.
Similarly when Licoln addressed to The American People at Gettysburg he did not receive any applause , ironically he tought to himfelf his Address has been a failure but it was not ...
And this would have pleased Benjamin Britten who disliked audiences immediately applauding no matter how well -intentioned. There has to be a transition from one world to another.
The defining moment of the piece to me is not the first bell, not the tentative beginning, the inexorable descent, or even the tutti Am climax - it is the silence after the final bell rings out, the crushing silence that lets you know your friend is really gone. That's when you cry, and are cleansed. I'm not really religious, but Pärt's music - well, to pinch a movie quote, it somehow makes me want to be a better man.
I have listened to this music over and over again. It moves me as no music has ever done. I have a love and hate relaionship with Arvo Pärts musics, but this piece of music of ultimate beauty digs so deep in your soul hat there are no words to describe how the intens feeling. Thank you Arvo for such profound beauty. Hugo Moors (Belgium)
I first heard this at its Prom’s debut many years ago - I was a young teenager and watch the performance on a black and white television. Music had always been part of my young life but I will never forget the extraordinary impact this had on me - I was moved to the core of my being, I physically could not move after the performance even when the applause had subsided- it was an epiphany for me and deepened my spiritual sensitivity. Thankyou is too little a word Arvo.
I feel as if every time I hear this song, a soul is making its way to heaven. That final bell toll at the end marks its arrival. Absolutely beautiful song: it's by far my favorite piece for strings. It moves me in a way that I've never been moved by any other piece.
5:38 what a breathtaking silence........ it perfectly describes the emotion you get when listening to this masterpiece, it just takes away all your thoughts, it's amazing, can't describe what I'm feeling.
BBC Proms audiences become adept, by practise, at reading the mood: 70concerts in a 2 month Prom 'season'.is good training . Give stillness and attention for quiet pieces, exuberance for exuberant pieces. We prommers (the audience) mostly want to wait for the last reverberation to die away in the oval-shaped hall, before applauding. I prom in the Gallery (up top of building) at a princely US$10 a concert. Love the public-funded BBC, Love the BBC Proms.
The music is performed only by strings and a single bell. The violins are just like a sharp knife, digging the grief of loss from the deepest of your soul; memories of the dead ones spew out from the wound. Meanwhile, the cellos and double basses, roar to the fate and are so helpless when seeing ones heartbeat slowly falls to silent. Yet, smoothness of the strings as a whole, is just like flowing river, or trying to comfort one's soul. At the end, the bass part create an image of burying the dead body of gentle soil. The continuous bell from the balcony, is akin to the passing time, and the final bell signifies the end of this tender ritual. Although the music lasts only 5 minutes, it feels more than that. Yet, I still hope it even more longer, or even never ends. Yes, this is what I always thought whenever my passed away grandpa enters my mind.
There are two pieces of 20th. century music that absolutely rip my heart and soul apart. This one and the third symphony of Henrich Gorecki.. Thank you so much for posting this rendition. The ending simply blew me away. Regards from Dothan Alabama
What utter beauty. The waves of hope and despair that wash over me as I listes. The sinking and the rising, the peace and the disturbance. The feeling that there is that hope that will reveal itself in the final bars.The silence at the end by the orchestra and the audience is deafening. That in and of itself creates such a perfect tensin and a perfect peace.
Oh my my my my........ I'm TOTALLY lost for words, the ending is just............ah when the music stops, as the conductor stops his baton; the world just stops too
I witnessed this piece performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall back in the early/mid '90s...gut wrenching! you could her a pin drop after final toll of the bell decayed. memorizing .
The first time i listened to this composition, I didn't gave attention to the ringing of the bell at the end. But, the first time you hear the rings... no words can describe the impression and the very meaning of the bell overtone...
A buddy (moreso mentor) of mine recommended this song to me when I was just a dumb kid thinking I understood music. I've never thought something written so simply (in terms of the actual manuscript) could ever deliver this much depth. But, it manages to be more and more intense as the song goes on. The resolution almost doesn't feel final. Just sad. What a beautiful piece.
Une œuvre millimétrique d'agencement sonore, où chaque son procède de ce juste intime si fort qui prend l'auditeur à bras le corps de sa sensibilité. La conversation magnifique entre êtres où aucun mot n'est employé, mais tellement quelque chose...de plus fort et d'éminemment pertinent.
First heard this in Bath Cathedral, during a practice for the Bath Music Festival. One of the Cathedral Bells was used for the Bell part, I had to sit down and listen I was so overwhelmed.
To those that either play or know strings... I do neither. But what a harmonious song where it seems as though they touch on every note, key, octave, etc. Just to let the memorium represent everything within his lifetime of compositions come forth in one final piece. It's beautiful, elegant, and a rather obscure piece to dedicate to one of such brilliance. I love it and I thank you for sharing this piece with the world abroad. As it should be heard by everyone. This coming from a jack of all genres of music should mean quite a lot. PLUR.
stunning performance. out of all the music in the world, this was the only piece i could listen to just after the 9/11 attacks in NYC where I'm living.
Il brano "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", scritto dal compositore estone Arvo Pärt nel 1976 in onore della morte del suo collega inglese, è un concentrato simbolico di incredibile intensità. Costruito su due dimensioni: quella verticale, degli archi, che partono da registri molto alti (ma non quasi ultrasonici come in “Silentium”), in una cadenza regolare ad intervalli discendenti, arrivano alla fine ad uniformarsi in un tono (forse attorno ad un Sol, ad orecchio non-assoluto), che è come una tenebrosa vibrazione di fondo. La rappresentazione immediata che viene alla mente è quella del passaggio dalla vita (note altissime) alla morte (registro basso). A questa discesa verticale è associata una linea orizzontale, regolare anche questa ma ad intervalli più larghi, di una campana: batte il ritmo della vita, ma il suono è significativamente di tono grave, a rammentare che ogni momento della vita è un passo verso la morte (il rintocco finale). Musica che emoziona, come poche altre comunque - in fondo imperscrutabile.
Un des tout grands compositeurs de notre époque assurément. Il a assimilé la musique du XX° siècle et l' a dépassée en retrouvant spiritualité et consonances. Du très très grand art !
truly beautiful, enigmatic, touching, somewhat eerie. If the world could only listen to this one piece of music I believe people would be more caring and sensitive towards the living. this music touches me in such a way its almost too good to be real, thank you Arvo for such a heavenly, mystifying piece of music
In this case, it's the silence that lets the audience notice the bell's C# overtone, so that even though the entire piece revolves around A minor, the very last sound is A major. SO BRILLIANT.
When I listen to Cantus it reminds me of what I saw in NY at ground zero when I went to help out after the attack. I cant stop crying. It is emotionally crushing.
This music was used on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (though I'm not really a fan of his) as the footage showed the burning, collapsing towers. A terrible time. Sorry to hear you were there.
Arvo Pärt comes from Estonia - home of mystical nature. We don't have mountains nor waterfalls, but... well this piece describes it, it's just home. Heino Eller - Kodumaine Viis (Home Melody)
Ce soir, la musique d'Arvo Part accompagne l'annonce du décès d'un ami cher et lumineux, dont l'étoile irradiante demeurera. A sa mémoire...en fidèle et indéfectible amitié.
As some who's first experience with classical music (if you allow me to use that word) was just now with this song. Wow. It's taken the title of saddest song I've ever heard from God Damn The Sun by Swans. It's so crushing with just the power of a tubular bell, strings and the genius of someone like Pärt. No lyrics, still the most crushing, saddest shit
The cantus was composed as an elegy to mourn the December 1976 death of the English composer Benjamin Britten. Pärt greatly admired Britten . Pärt described Britten as possessing the "unusual purity" that he himself sought as a composer. Pärt viewed the Englishman as a kindred spirit ; however , he gained access to the latter's music only in 1980 , after emigrating from Soviet Estonia to Austria ,four years after Britten had died . When Britten died , Pärt felt that he had lost hope of meeting the only contemporary composer whose musical outlook , he believed , resembled his own .
A moving and personal response to the news of Britten's death, a composer Part had long-admired and was due to meet. I urge people to listen to Britten's music, if only one piece his War Requiem - and if only one part of that "Let us sleep".
I think that in this type of work would be much more interesting that people do not clap, break all the peace and the feeling that conveys the work. Sometimes, when I go to the theater, I cover my ears when they finish playing, not to lose what I conveyed the music.
Yo viajé 10 Hrs. para ver a la Filarmónica de Estonia en el Palacio de Bellas artes en México sin ticket en la mano,llegué desesperado tratando de encontrar ticket y una señora se acercó a mi y me dijo que ella veía que yo tenía muchas ganas de entrar, solamente me dio un ticket y me dijo entra!! es gratis!!. Pensaba pagar lo que fuera por escuchar en vivo a Arvo y verlo, está pieza fue la primera y el último sonido, esperar a que se disolviera en el espacio fue increíble.
I have no words to describe how hard this music hits me emotionally. I was flooded by goosebumps
18 words exacted your feeling precisely
I once heard this driving to work. I had to pull over until it finished. Devastating.
+Joss Hawthorn I also heard it first while driving ( I don't remember where ) and did my best to memorize the name (before cell phones)
This comment is somehow so dead funny hahaha
Dad passed away some months ago, a devastating cancer. During his funeral, i heard this masterpiece in my mind again and again: the waves, the stream and its brutal silence at the end, just like a peaceful river fading into the sea.
That's an audience to admire, they let themselves absorb the silence at the end, instead of clapping the instant the music stopped.
Similarly when Licoln addressed to The American People at Gettysburg he did not receive any applause , ironically he tought to himfelf his Address has been a failure but it was not ...
And this would have pleased Benjamin Britten who disliked audiences immediately applauding no matter how well -intentioned. There has to be a transition from one world to another.
Absolutely - its general etiquette to wait for the ensemble to lower their bows before applauding.
The defining moment of the piece to me is not the first bell, not the tentative beginning, the inexorable descent, or even the tutti Am climax - it is the silence after the final bell rings out, the crushing silence that lets you know your friend is really gone. That's when you cry, and are cleansed.
I'm not really religious, but Pärt's music - well, to pinch a movie quote, it somehow makes me want to be a better man.
The silences at the beginning and end were written into the music ...
I think not much xdddd
this bells are better and bigger
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Leo ... that is the most beautiful comment I have ever read on youtube. (Low bar i know, but beautiful none the less).
Thank you
I used to be one of those militant atheist types until I listened to music by say, Part and Bach.
that guy on the bell was sensational.
I have listened to this music over and over again. It moves me as no music has ever done. I have a love and hate relaionship with Arvo Pärts musics, but this piece of music of ultimate beauty digs so deep in your soul hat there are no words to describe how the intens feeling. Thank you Arvo for such profound beauty. Hugo Moors (Belgium)
agree with all but i don't hate Arvo Part
I first heard this at its Prom’s debut many years ago - I was a young teenager and watch the performance on a black and white television. Music had always been part of my young life but I will never forget the extraordinary impact this had on me - I was moved to the core of my being, I physically could not move after the performance even when the applause had subsided- it was an epiphany for me and deepened my spiritual sensitivity. Thankyou is too little a word Arvo.
That was exactly my experience as a teenager in Belfast on our B and W tv. Unforgettable musical impact and epiphany.
My Grandfather passed away just a few hours ago. I think this is the perfect balance of sadness and peace.
@@26aitches Thanks Jonathan. This happened eight years ago but since then this track makes me remember my grandpa.
I have listened to this thousands of times and still moved to tears.
This is life in a single score of music. The double bass at the end hits me.
Beautiful, spacious, moving.
One word has so many shades of meaning. This work is the one most successful in saying one - "Goodbye".
I feel as if every time I hear this song, a soul is making its way to heaven. That final bell toll at the end marks its arrival. Absolutely beautiful song: it's by far my favorite piece for strings. It moves me in a way that I've never been moved by any other piece.
For me, it’s like a soul finding the gates of heaven shut, and facing eternity alone.
Man, you said it!
C'est de tout beauté ...En l'écoutant, petit à petit vous êtes oppressée par l'émotion qui envahie entièrement votre âme. Un chef d'oeuvre
5:38 what a breathtaking silence........ it perfectly describes the emotion you get when listening to this masterpiece, it just takes away all your thoughts, it's amazing, can't describe what I'm feeling.
that final silence! stunning
Agree.
goosebumps guaranteed!
Not to mention refreshing - there is all too often that one idiot who jumps up and shouts 'Bravo!' before the sound has even started to die away.
Listen to this finale. Alexander Scriabin "symphony 1"
BBC Proms audiences become adept, by practise, at reading the mood: 70concerts in a 2 month Prom 'season'.is good training . Give stillness and attention for quiet pieces, exuberance for exuberant pieces. We prommers (the audience) mostly want to wait for the last reverberation to die away in the oval-shaped hall, before applauding. I prom in the Gallery (up top of building) at a princely US$10 a concert. Love the public-funded BBC, Love the BBC Proms.
who could dislike something this amazing?
The music is performed only by strings and a single bell. The violins are just like a sharp knife, digging the grief of loss from the deepest of your soul; memories of the dead ones spew out from the wound. Meanwhile, the cellos and double basses, roar to the fate and are so helpless when seeing ones heartbeat slowly falls to silent. Yet, smoothness of the strings as a whole, is just like flowing river, or trying to comfort one's soul. At the end, the bass part create an image of burying the dead body of gentle soil. The continuous bell from the balcony, is akin to the passing time, and the final bell signifies the end of this tender ritual.
Although the music lasts only 5 minutes, it feels more than that. Yet, I still hope it even more longer, or even never ends. Yes, this is what I always thought whenever my passed away grandpa enters my mind.
Fantastic synopsis - you have captured the heartfelt emotion well
Hin Fung Fung you forgot about the violists
@@isabellapineda4465 literally the second line 🤦🏻♂️
a life has never been so captured as this ...
Arvo Part - is one of the Greatest Composer in history of MUSIC.
There are two pieces of 20th. century music that absolutely rip my heart and soul apart. This one and the third symphony of Henrich Gorecki.. Thank you so much for posting this rendition. The ending simply blew me away. Regards from Dothan Alabama
I do not know music...but I know beauty. That note they carry on for the last minute or so...wow. Am I the only one who holds their breath?
I’m not religious there’s no supernatural entity but when I listen to avro part and this piece I can believe in humanities heaven
What utter beauty. The waves of hope and despair that wash over me as I listes. The sinking and the rising, the peace and the disturbance. The feeling that there is that hope that will reveal itself in the final bars.The silence at the end by the orchestra and the audience is deafening. That in and of itself creates such a perfect tensin and a perfect peace.
God bless Arvo Pärt in all his life, because through his songs, I can find God, in each note, in each chord. Thank you!
Me too!
The opening bell is C which indicates it’s in minor but the last bell is C# which ends it on a major note - beautiful little detail
As a non-musician, I wasn't aware of this. Thank you for sharing it. What moving music this truly is...
That is incorrect - the bell tone throughout is A.
Oh my my my my........
I'm TOTALLY lost for words,
the ending is just............ah
when the music stops, as the conductor stops his baton;
the world just stops too
This is the music of a person who believes there is something unbelievable great...and he nears very humble....thank you
If your mortal soul does not break into pieces within the first 30 seconds of this song, my friend, I have nothing else to say.
I witnessed this piece performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall back in the early/mid '90s...gut wrenching! you could her a pin drop after final toll of the bell decayed. memorizing
.
So mysterious and powerful, so many feelings at the same time. It's just hypnotic and amazing ...
The first time i listened to this composition, I didn't gave attention to the ringing of the bell at the end. But, the first time you hear the rings... no words can describe the impression and the very meaning of the bell overtone...
Part never fails to amaze me. This is gorgeous.
Imposible express in words the emotion.
A buddy (moreso mentor) of mine recommended this song to me when I was just a dumb kid thinking I understood music.
I've never thought something written so simply (in terms of the actual manuscript) could ever deliver this much depth. But, it manages to be more and more intense as the song goes on.
The resolution almost doesn't feel final. Just sad.
What a beautiful piece.
Une œuvre millimétrique d'agencement sonore, où chaque son procède de ce juste intime si fort qui prend l'auditeur à bras le corps de sa sensibilité. La conversation magnifique entre êtres où aucun mot n'est employé, mais tellement quelque chose...de plus fort et d'éminemment pertinent.
Gracias por publicación Arvo llena el alma... inspirador
That audience showed some class at the end there.
If there is one piece that I want to hear live in person - its this. devastating
Spectacular piece of music. Arvo Pärt, what a genius!
Magique!Je ne peux pas m'en lasser...Emotion presque palpable.
Gardner and the Beeb did this justice. A beautiful performance.
First heard this in Bath Cathedral, during a practice for the Bath Music Festival. One of the Cathedral Bells was used for the Bell part, I had to sit down and listen I was so overwhelmed.
To those that either play or know strings... I do neither. But what a harmonious song where it seems as though they touch on every note, key, octave, etc. Just to let the memorium represent everything within his lifetime of compositions come forth in one final piece. It's beautiful, elegant, and a rather obscure piece to dedicate to one of such brilliance. I love it and I thank you for sharing this piece with the world abroad. As it should be heard by everyone. This coming from a jack of all genres of music should mean quite a lot. PLUR.
stunning performance. out of all the music in the world, this was the only piece i could listen to just after the 9/11 attacks in NYC where I'm living.
Il brano "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", scritto dal compositore estone Arvo Pärt nel 1976 in onore della morte del suo collega inglese, è un concentrato simbolico di incredibile intensità. Costruito su due dimensioni: quella verticale, degli archi, che partono da registri molto alti (ma non quasi ultrasonici come in “Silentium”), in una cadenza regolare ad intervalli discendenti, arrivano alla fine ad uniformarsi in un tono (forse attorno ad un Sol, ad orecchio non-assoluto), che è come una tenebrosa vibrazione di fondo. La rappresentazione immediata che viene alla mente è quella del passaggio dalla vita (note altissime) alla morte (registro basso). A questa discesa verticale è associata una linea orizzontale, regolare anche questa ma ad intervalli più larghi, di una campana: batte il ritmo della vita, ma il suono è significativamente di tono grave, a rammentare che ogni momento della vita è un passo verso la morte (il rintocco finale). Musica che emoziona, come poche altre comunque - in fondo imperscrutabile.
emotionally crushing
Un des tout grands compositeurs de notre époque assurément. Il a assimilé la musique du XX° siècle et l' a dépassée en retrouvant spiritualité et consonances. Du très très grand art !
truly beautiful, enigmatic, touching, somewhat eerie. If the world could only listen to this one piece of music I believe people would be more caring and sensitive towards the living. this music touches me in such a way its almost too good to be real, thank you Arvo for such a heavenly, mystifying piece of music
So deeply ,so wonderfully soul-soothing musical work...
In this case, it's the silence that lets the audience notice the bell's C# overtone, so that even though the entire piece revolves around A minor, the very last sound is A major.
SO BRILLIANT.
余韻の中で音楽が完結し
「今に居る」
とにかく素晴らしいのです！
Parece una composición eterna, sin principio ni fin y lo mejor de todo es que no apetece que acabe nunca.
Watched this the last week in Sheffield by the Estonians, never heard it before !! very surreal.
Fantastic. Thank you for posting this. Awesome performance.
Moving and touching !!!!
One of my most dearly loved musical works !
I love this comment section. People actually sharing their thoughts on the music they’re hearing. Bliss!
Quel hommage!
Lorsque sonne le glas la mémoire de celui parti surgit et LÀ l’on sait que c’est fini…..
Monstrueux de talent
Stunning.
A stunning masterpiece
Simplemente una obra de arte una maravilla !!!!!BBCSymphony O x EdGardener excelentes
extremely well done, maestro....
Desde la primera vez que lo escuche, es simplemente cautivadora, suave y bella,
Mesmerizing . . . Utterly moving . . .
Critics called it "despair distilled" This music was used to great effect in the movie "Mother Night". I tear up every time I hear it.
Who are critics - idiots who think they have something to say - this music is for eternity.
But was this negative criticism? Not just an accurate, two-word summary of this masterpiece?
When I listen to Cantus it reminds me of what I saw in NY at ground zero when I went to help out after the attack. I cant stop crying. It is emotionally crushing.
This music was used on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (though I'm not really a fan of his) as the footage showed the burning, collapsing towers. A terrible time. Sorry to hear you were there.
At end its tearin´ me inside ... So powerful.
Never had been a fan of studying nor playing Pärt's music, but today, this one fits.
hypnotic... beautifully done.
Arvo Pärt comes from Estonia - home of mystical nature. We don't have mountains nor waterfalls, but... well this piece describes it, it's just home. Heino Eller - Kodumaine Viis (Home Melody)
Ce soir, la musique d'Arvo Part accompagne l'annonce du décès d'un ami cher et lumineux, dont l'étoile irradiante demeurera. A sa mémoire...en fidèle et indéfectible amitié.
Inmortal obra de AvroPart !!!!! in memoria al genio de Sir Benjamin Britten !!!!!
the best composer live
As some who's first experience with classical music (if you allow me to use that word) was just now with this song. Wow. It's taken the title of saddest song I've ever heard from God Damn The Sun by Swans. It's so crushing with just the power of a tubular bell, strings and the genius of someone like Pärt. No lyrics, still the most crushing, saddest shit
extremely well done, maestro!!!!!
Wow, se volverá una pieza favorita para toda mi vida.
Oh to be layed to rest to this would be AMAZING!!
I didn't know 6 minutes can go past so fast.
Also.......................................... life
Fantastische muziek. Zwaar en licht.
amazing
I like Pärt a lot, but hadn't heard this before. Do I hear (deliberate) echoes of Britten? Truly moving....
Surely yes, many very clear echoes...
Just imagine being in that room. Wow
a powerful piece.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing
sounds like wind, getting stronger and stronger with a small church somewhere, its going to rain, and the wind sudenly stops.
beautiful
All my respect Arvo
I only can cry, and feel soooo i don't know... confuse.
The only thing i have very clear is the fact that, always make me cry.
Bravo to Arvo Part.
The cantus was composed as an elegy to mourn the December 1976 death of
the English composer Benjamin Britten.
Pärt greatly admired Britten .
Pärt described Britten as possessing the "unusual purity" that he himself
sought as a composer.
Pärt viewed the Englishman as a kindred spirit ; however , he gained access
to the latter's music only in 1980 , after emigrating from Soviet Estonia
to Austria ,four years after Britten had died .
When Britten died , Pärt felt that he had lost hope of meeting the only
contemporary composer whose musical outlook , he believed ,
resembled his own .
Stunning!
A moving and personal response to the news of Britten's death, a composer Part had long-admired and was due to meet. I urge people to listen to Britten's music, if only one piece his War Requiem - and if only one part of that "Let us sleep".
Qué pieza tan hermosa y potente!!!
I think that in this type of work would be much more interesting that people do not clap, break all the peace and the feeling that conveys the work. Sometimes, when I go to the theater, I cover my ears when they finish playing, not to lose what I conveyed the music.
The bell is the most interesting sound in, it is clear but independent and unpredictable.
Yo viajé 10 Hrs. para ver a la Filarmónica de Estonia en el Palacio de Bellas artes en México sin ticket en la mano,llegué desesperado tratando de encontrar ticket y una señora se acercó a mi y me dijo que ella veía que yo tenía muchas ganas de entrar, solamente me dio un ticket y me dijo entra!! es gratis!!. Pensaba pagar lo que fuera por escuchar en vivo a Arvo y verlo, está pieza fue la primera y el último sonido, esperar a que se disolviera en el espacio fue increíble.
Powerful...
Thank you audience, for waiting for the last note to die, instead of drowning it prematurely. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
im so glad that arvo pärt finally gets his full admission
perfect play by the orchestra btw