Arvo Pärt: Magnificat & Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass)
Magnificat
Program notes by Mitchell Covington (Cantabile Choral Guild)
Program notes from Chanticleer, plus text and translation (Saint Paul Sunday) (scroll down and follow link)
Program notes from Seattle Pro Musica (scroll down)
Analysis of rhythm & form by David E. Pinkerton, plus text and translation (dissertation)
Analysis of pitch, texture, and tintinnabulation by David E. Pinkerton (dissertation)
Analysis of relationship of music to text by David E. Pinkerton (dissertation)
Article on the Magnificat text (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Berlin Mass
RealAudio file of Kyrie and Gloria
RealAudio file of Sanctus and Agnus Die
Program notes by Jeremy Grimshaw (All Music Guide) (In search box, enter "berliner messe"; on results page, click on the first result; to see full notes, click on "read more.")
Program notes for the Berlin Mass by Tim O’Brien, plus mass text and translation (Ensemble of the North)
Essay on Pärt by Bill McGlaughlin, with links to audio samples of works
Discussion and demonstration of the Agnus Dei (RealAudio file)
CD Recordings with both the Magnificat & the Berlin Mass
Tönu Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, ECM (1999)
recording info. at Amazon.com
recording info. at ECM Records
Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Harmonia Mundi (2005)
recording info. at Amazon.com
recording info. at Harmonia Mundi
Reviews of CDs with both the Magnificat & the Berlin Mass
by Grant Chu Covell at La Folia (Hillier) (essay on compositional style and review of five CDs released to mark Pärt’s 70th birthday)
by Steve Schwartz at Classical Net (Kaljuste)
by David Vernier at Classics Today (Hillier)
CD Recordings of the Magnificat
Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices, Harmonia Mundi
recording info. at
Amazon.com
recording info. at Harmonia Mundi
Paul Hillier, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Harmonia Mundi (2006)
recording info. at Amazon.com
recording info. at Harmonia Mundi
Reviews of CD Recordings of the Magnificat
by David Vernier at Classics Today (Hillier, Estonian PCC)
CD Recordings of the Berlin Mass
Paul Hillier, Theatre of Voices, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Harmonia Mundi (2000)
recording info. at Amazon.com
recording info. at Harmonia Mundi
Reviews of CD Recordings of the Berlin Mass
by David Vernier at Classics Today
by Jason Serinus at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity (scroll down)
Discographies
by Doug Maskew (covering all works by Pärt, updated May 2005)
by Alex Ross (The New Yorker)
Composer’s Biography
Grove Concise Dictionary of Music
Classical Net Web site
Universal Edition Web site
Biography by Doug Maskew
Biography & analysis of compositional style by
David E. Pinkerton
Arvopart.info Web site