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Chor Des Bayerichen Rundfunks / Muchner Rundfunkorchestra, Peter Dijkstra: Arvo Pärt: Te Deum

by C. Michael Bailey
July 18, 2015

With the death of British choral composer John Tavener in 2013, we are left with a single living composer of similar distinction: Arvo Pärt. Estonian by birth (b. 1935), Pärt emigrated from the Communist East with his wife and two sons, initially living in Vienna and eventually relocating to Berlin in 1981. After the fall of Communism, Pärt began to divide his time between Berlin and Tallinn (near his birthplace of Paide). Like Tavener, Pärt converted to Orthodox Christianity, a ...