Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028945783420
Genres: Classical  
Release Date: 31 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028945783420
Genres: Classical  
Description
World premiere recordings of music for choir by Arvo Pärt, based on the canon of repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church. The canon had long fascinated the Estonian composer who finally decided to set it in its entirety in music written to mark the 750th anniversary of Cologne Cathedral. Pärt: It took over two years to compose the Kanon pokajanen, and its hold on me did not abate until I had finished the score...That may explain why this music means so much to me." As writer Uwe Schweikert has noted, it is "music full of austere, painful beauty.""
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Arvo Part
The Hilliard Ensemble
Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, & Dennis Russell Davies
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tonu Kaljuste
Arvo Part
Arvo Part
Gidon Kremer; Keith Jarrett; Tatjana Grindenko; Staatsorchester Stuttgart; The 12 Cellists of the B
Kayako Bruckmann (violin), Rene Berman (cello), Michael van Krucker (piano)