Fratres: Best of Arvo Pärt

Simple but not simplistic, enigmatic but clear: When Estonian composer Arvo Pärt had his breakthrough in the West in 1984 with Tabula rasa, it was the result of many years spent in the quest for artistic meaning. In his music largely reduced to the Tintinnabuli style, Pärt established a unique and unmistakeable voice. Inspired by Gregorian chant and Renaissance music, he created scores of immense tranquility that maintain the balance between the eternity of their sounds and the transience of their melodies….