Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

[Xartaetos2007]

Hmmm... Inception much?

[Tasminviolin]

YouTube won't let me send the link but if you google "tasmin little, soul music", it comes up easily! 

[MrsPSALMS8510]

I heard there was a recent BBC production concerning this piece and its role in peoples lives. Is this the Radio4 production people are referring to? Is there anywhere I can listen to this programme? I have contacted the author and have not heard from her.

[Tasminviolin]

@MrsPSALMS8510 The programme is called "Soul Music" - it is still available on the Radio 4 website hope you enjoy it. All the best, Tasmin Little

[Pyttdk]

I had the most perfect moment in my life life with this melody. actually not being allowed to go on deck. the wawes was to rough, but I did it anyway, between Iceland and Greenland. That was the perfect moment to here this melody wawes just attacking me softly, Mother Earth touched me, like this melody touches me.

[Persoggyo]

Ooh ooh ooh

[combandpaper283]

I heard it for the first time on radio 4 recently too. I was in the car sobbing. This piece seems so cathartic, if there are any tears in you, this will bring them out. If not, it will calm, uplift or energise you... whatever you need from it at any given time, it seems to supply. Pure, beautiful, perfect.

[tracorslow]

I too love Radio 4 for showing me this beautiful piece. :)

[firestartertwistedfi]

Yes, I'd like to join in the chorus of approval for the Radio 4 programme, and for Tamsin Little's wonderful performance. I need some advice - I need to learn a piece for a concert my friend is hosting at Christmas, with a mixture of proper professional musicians and so-so amateurs like myself. I am wondering if this would be a good piece to try and learn for that!

[Kentcommentator]

Wonderful piece of music. I have only just discovered it through a prog on Radio 4 yesterday and Tamsin Little was on it too. Thank you Tamsin I've now bought the CD.

[MissClareCharlotte]

This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. It's unbelievable how a series of musical notations put together into some kind of order can create some of the most complex emotions inside you. Love it.

Thanks awfully for uploading this.

C

[AlisonLBK]

Yes, I've just heard it today for first time on Radio 4. So did my sister! Both of us enjoyed it tremendously - and the accompanying stories.



[wendy860]

Heard this today on Radio 4. Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful piece and exquisitely performed by Tasmin.

I may get to see you next weekend when you perform at the Yehudi Menuhin school as it's quite close to where I live.

[Anaglyph32]

Me too. Always nice to discover beauty when you least expect it.

[cdowse]

I heard it on the radio yesterday as well and had to stop the car - truly amazing

[lush123ish]

Very haunting, had to listen once again before going to bed, it made me weep gently, calmed my soul and took me to another level. I forwarded it to my daughter in the south of France to play to our darling grandchild who seems to want to stop what she is up to and listen to classical music. She is only 15 months old! I want to hear more of this type of music by Tamsin Little. I heard her on Radio 4 today. Thank you Tamsin.Love your version best of all.

[lush123ish]

Very haunting, had to listen once again before going to bed, it made me weep gently, calmed my soul and took me to another level. I forwarded it to my daughter in the south of France to play to our darling grandchild who seems to want to stop what she is up to and listen to classical music. She is only 15 months old! I want to hear more of this type of music by Tamsin Little. I heard her on Radio 4 today.

[annabelveneto]

A true moment of beauty of tranquility and peace.....takes me onto another level....thank you Annabel

[arkaisk2]

This is my favourite recording of this piece. The tempo, the tenderness... well, it couldn´t be better played.

[MrsPSALMS8510]

Thank you all for placing such value on this magnificent piece, and for doing it great justice

[saintjimmyde]

beautiful performance !



[saintjimmyde]

beautiful performance !

[saintjimmyde]

beautiful performance !

[lemonhead1961]

This has the edge over the other versions I've heard - I couldn't quantify it (wouldn't want to). Wonderful piece, special performance.

[mauerbluemchen001]

Every time I hear this piece I start thinking about how wonderful it is that music exist. Just couldn´t imagin life without it. <3

Very beautiful version, it´s really touching. THANK YOU.

[loswichitangeles]

I was listening to this music while watching the total lunar solstice eclipse and realized that the name is called mirrors within mirrors. The Sun is casting our earthly collective Shadow into the Moon and we are watching it. The eclipse is like a mirror and we are a mirror within a mirror!

[trumpterman]

I listened to this piece in my hotel room when i was ghastly sick and hurting on the day of my audition for juilliard. this inspired me to keep going and now i end up here at the school. thank you for this music.

[guibox3]

So much better with the violin instead of the cello. Very nice version Tasmin. It is amazing what Arvo Part can do with the simplest musical movements.

[jaslenda]

shall my heart in tears as it listens to this,

touched, prolonged, belong.

[smithclare]

Beyond beauty; beyond this or anyother world - this piece stops time. Truly astounding.

[donniecatalano]

So far no idiot commented badly or against anyone. That is very nice. Please, keep this video sections free from arguments and hate, just enjoy these masterpieces. Thank you.

[pussadee11]

I really like it! Great :)

[ImperatrixInfernalis]

So calm yet so moving, soft and emotive

[nihilistahedonista]

0 unlike answer

of course :)

[FVmike]

I want to quote what someone once said of this song.

"If this song finds you at that certain crucial moment, it not only has the ability to entirely change your view on music, but your potential to notice the inherent beauty in the realities that constantly surround you. Spiegel im Spiegel is--up to this point in my life--my favorite song. It is a song that has enough space to allow the listener to fill it with his own emotions, but also his failings to live up to the beauty it presents.

[82558061]

@FVmike

nicely said

[KlangwerkIndustrie]

This is perfect purity. If God has a voice, he speaks through Pärt's music. Every time I hear this music, my soul seems to be transformed into pure light ... And the tears flow - but all the pain slowly leaves the body ...

[beccacullen1]

i have looked for this song for ages! I cry every time they use it in sad parts of casualty :'(

[khalcyon2011]

so simple, yet so beautiful

[TheWalt83]

this is absolutly the most beautiful peice of music i have ever herd, i am a fan of trance/dance music, but love to find music like this to take me away to a different place, and just be. truly magical wow.

[onthehorses]

So beautiful,so quiett,so much stillness in music,such a balm for the soul. I love this version most.. moving!

[Misserbert]

This has got to be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.

[027Karunesh]

Thak you

[Tasminviolin]

Hi Robbie

I only just found that this performance of mine is here, and saw your lovely comments. I am really glad that this performance has touched you so deeply.

Best wishes

Tasmin Little

[iorixs]

i used to play this on the stereo for my little boy when he was an infant

[iorixs]

and i would hold him right between the speakers so that the beauty and innocence of this music would impress on him a quality of virtue, love, simplicy, honesty and sublimity. this cd is one of my favs, fratres is intense

[robbiew8n]

@Tasminviolin

again. you touched me when i needed it the most.

i weep for past pain of my own... and the suffering of others. in a world of so many horrors... a moment of beauty.

thank you

robbiew8n

[DivinityBleu]

@robbiew8n

These two comments between the performer and yourself....what a beautiful and moving display of raw emotion. Thank you both, performer and presenter.

[tullochgorum]

Bravo Tasmin! Simplicity is surely the biggest artistic challenge of all, and you certainly pull it off here!

[palko52]

@Tasminviolin

have heard many versions of this - I am loving Yours - authentic simplicity and deeply emotional at the same time ... just wonderful. Thank You

Palko

[palko52]

@Tasminviolin

have heard many versions of this - I am loving Yours - played with authentic simplicity and deeply emotional at the same time ... just wonderful. Thank You

Palko

[robbiew8n]

doesn't anyone on YT have a conversation anymore, share their experience, say something ?

robbiew8n

xx

[robbiew8n]

cannot quite capture the quality on my laptop. when heard on good quality speakers, tasmin little plays this in a way that touches the most painful experiences of my heart in the most exquisite, agonisingly poignant way. although it hurts, i am sure that i heal a little more each time i hear it. i hope that it works for others too.

good wishes fellow travellers

robbiew8n

[Misserbert]

@robbiew8n

It gets me in the same way too! Reminds me of something so painful and this piece evokes some strong emotions but it seems to have a healing quality about it.

[PhantineXX1]

@robbiew8n

i agree with you there

good call

:)

[robbiew8n]

@PhantineXX1 hi there........... thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment.... and glad that you agree with me. good wishes, friend. robbiew8n

[yourforte]

So very beautiful.

[Xantec]

excellent piece of music, and quite emotive.

[Awhiffofsuspicion]

for nan, bernie and dunc xxxxx

[robbiew8n]

your comment touched me and i felt that i had to share that with you. i felt your love for those people.

i hope it is okay for me to write that.

good wishes

robbiew8n

xx

[darnmat]

Actually, my taste for this piece is a little slower... But... this rendition captivated me and transcended my taste... What a very meaningful recording....