Arvo Pärt & Tõnu Kaljuste Documentary | Feat. "Te Deum" by The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2023
- Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of today’s most original creators of music. Many of his compositions are bound up with sacred texts and have a shimmeringly mystical, devotional quality, underscored by the use of Renaissance harmonizations, medieval melodic techniques, the music of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Gregorian chant. The film features a performance of Pärt’s luminously beautiful "Te Deum" given by the choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by the charismatic conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. It was recorded at the Church of St. Nicholas in Tallinn.
The documentary "Voices Still in Time: Images of Estonian Music" takes a fascinating insight into the life of the choir and Kaljuste’s gift for conducting, as well as Arvo Pärt's music. The cameras accompany the choir to Otepaa for a special residential rehearsal period, where they are joined by Arvo Pärt. In an interview, Kaljuste talks about the development of the choir under his leadership and about the importance of Pärt’s music in their repertoire.
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ABOUT THE COMPOSER AND THE CONDUCTOR
Pärt was born in Estonia, a country with a strong tradition of choral music, which is famed for its excellent choirs. The country’s top vocal ensemble, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, was founded in 1981 by conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. Kaljuste has established the choir’s reputation internationally through frequent touring and numerous audio releases.
Directed by Aarno Cronvall
Produced by RM Associate
in cooperation with Estonian TV, SBS TV, YLE, ZDF / Arte
© 1999 Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution
God bless Tonu and Arvo, you are an inspiration. Greetings from Zimbabwe
I remember hearing this by chance on Swedish public television in the 90s. As a teenager hearing it, even though my experience with music was limited, it was impossible not to recognize the unique beauty of this piece. Pärt, Tonu and the choir and orchestra have me like a puppet on a string, and they are pulling me left and right, leaving me completely without control in the most beautiful way. Wonderful to hear the rehearsals, Tonu’s reasoning and background. Brings even more joy to it! Thank you to musicians and the filmmakers!
This is a priceless, invaluable glimpse into one of the greatest of Arvo Part's works and the artists who realized it in the ECM recording of 1993, a Te Deum that feels so unusually, and is outright, uniquely, penitential, crucially pocked with explosions of Divine Mercy. Remarkably, the embedded complete performance exhibits the traces of still on-going refinements (!)...
For Americans in the 90s, we had no image of the peoples, the landscape, the world from which this immense sacred music issued. Nothing on earth has ever sounded like this, not even in the Church....
To see the musicians playing it, seeing the shape of the strokes that pieces together the language it expresses, is a revelation. For before, it was untouchable, as if from some other dimension...
The entire document is presented with impeccable content editing and yet remains simple and irreducibly poetic; like the finest of public television in the states.
This is really essential material; the experience of which makes Te Deum incomplete without it IMO. This magnum opus comes alive and is all much more human, as opposed to cosmic, which makes the cosmic miracle of it all, all the more astonishing.
This is sacred music so raw and uncompromising, that the Divine is perceived in the room, and surely Heaven knows how humanity had waited for such balm, wrapped so revealingly as it is in praise! Glory to God in the highest!! Thank you Estonia from the bottom of our hearts in the US!! Tremendous!!!
This is so wonderful! 'Litany' & 'The Deum' have been staples of my listening repertoire for almost 3 decades; Arvo Pärt's music is just the gift this noise-saturated world needs.
exquisite music indeed. thank you
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This is breathtaking. To be able to listen and learn from all these extraordinary musicians and choirs under this poet of a conductor, Tonu Kaljuste, and to be able to hear him speak and impart his knowledge and experience in this Choragus and Cantus Gregorianus music and its history. This Estonian Choir that Mr. Tonu Kaljuste founded is one of the most beautiful I have ever had the chance to hear.
Arvo Part is many mixtures of tones and the silence has left me in tears of its beauty. May I also send congratulations to all these talented people for their love of passionate harmonies and artistry.
With the deepest appreciation and devotion to all who participated in this masterpiece. ❤️🙏
I totally agree with you. This documentary is so precious!!
As singer in a community choir i find the conductor simply incredibile.
I'm toched.
I have a connection with the music of arvo part and this orchestra and choir.
And Tonu Is a wonderful person.