Kanon Pokajanen

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	Artist(s):	Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
	Music by:	Ecm Records
	Sales Rank:	45859

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Creators:
Arvo Part (Composer)
Arvo Part (Conductor)
Arvo Part (Orchestra)

Recording label: Ecm Records
EAN: 0028945783420
Binding: Audio CD
Release Date: 2000-01-25
Universal product code (UPC): 028945783420
Number of discs: 2

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Amazon.com's Best of 1998
It seems as though every year, mystic Estonian composer Arvo Pärt delivers a new, thoroughly riveting composition. This year, it was Kanon Pokajanen. From the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church, Part created an a cappella masterpiece, a minimalist work that builds itself gradually, yet completely, upon haunting voices, harmonies, and volume. On this disc, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir delivers a gripping performance, with gorgeous sound quality. It's more than 80 minutes long, but thoroughly rewarding. --Jason Verlinde

Amazon.com essential recording
Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen is an unqualified masterpiece. Although he's previously written music with similar notions of harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic economy, this work successfully incorporates and develops material that in this context easily could become unwieldy. The texts are taken from the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church, a subject that has occupied the composer for many years. These songs of transformation "invoke the border between day and night ... prophecy and fulfillment, the here and the hereafter." Supervised by the composer, this performance by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is pure gold, and likely will remain the definitive recording. Pärt's music rises from gentle valleys to impressive dramatic heights; from single voices to full choir. Here is 83 minutes of exquisite a cappella music in which time and space seem one, and rhythms find their place in a perfect synchrony with breathing and heartbeat. Whether any of this is conscious on the composer's part is incidental. Pärt is tuned into something that finds and touches us all. --David Vernier

Disc 1 Tracks:
1. Kanon pokajanen: Ode I
2. Kanon pokajanen: Ode III
3. Kanon pokajanen: Ode IV
4. Kanon pokajanen: Ode V
5. Kanon pokajanen: Ode VI

Disc 2 Tracks:
1. Kanon pokajanen: Kondakion
2. Kanon pokajanen: Ikos
3. Kanon pokajanen: Ode VII
4. Kanon pokajanen: Ode VIII
5. Kanon pokajanen: Ode IX
6. Kanon pokajanen: Prayer after the Canon

Publishers: Ecm Records