Arvo Part - De Profundis

Arvo Part
De Profundis (1980)


De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine;
Domine, exaudi vocem meam.
Fiant aures tuae intendentes
in vocem deprecationis meae.
Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine,
Domine, quis sustinebit?
Quia apud te propitiatio est,
et propter legem tuam.
Sustinui te, Domine,
sustinuit anima mea in verbo eius;
speravit anima mea in Domino
a custodia matutina usque ad noctem
speret Israel in Domino,
quia apud Dominum misericordia,
et copiosa apud eum redemptio.
Et ipse redimet Israel
ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius.


The Hilliard Ensemble

David James counter tenor
John Potter tenor
Paul Hillier baritone
David Bevan bass
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent organ
Albert Bowen percussion


Photo: Édouard Delessert

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• religious
• vocal

[Sagern39]

How on earth? This sound must of directly descended from Allpha and Omega.

I've lost for words..

[TheHenrylaycock]

These dwellings are probably hobbit holes of poorer hobbits, located somwhere in the Shire, and almost certainly rented out by a slumlord hobbit from the post-Saruman late mediaeval period.

[takezosan]

@TheHenrylaycock hahahaha lol :D

[minefieldwalker]

Wow.



[EchoedSentiments]

I've listened to this many a time, and yet it still has the same effect it gripped me with when I first listened to it. It's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. The quartet is also simply spectacular. They performed this piece wonderfully.

[acroamaticeeore]

Demons smile in sadness.

[Rossco242]

As part of my undergrad degree we were given the task of selecting a piece of music, giving a research presentation on it and then performing it. I stumbled across De Profundiis. I can't think of a piece of music that I've connected with so deeply before or since. I became obsessed with it. Every single note - its pitch and duration - has a significance. To me, it's the best kind of music: something that can be endlessly analysed while still evoking something beyond words.

[albedoshader]

@atumbr82: But nevertheless Pärt also uses medieval composition techniques, what he calls Tintinnabuli.

[pasqui86]

@pasqui86 Es posible encontrar la partitura? (completa, voces, órgano y percusión) Me encantaria cantarla...

[pasqui86]

fantastica suplica, letra y musica...

[Bachsoboe]

@antuphus Brilliant film, and Shane Meadows uses Part's music most skilfully.

[atumbr82]

@sauvagemusic arvo part and other contemporary composers use medieval sing techniques, like on this one. The singing is baroque, medieval, but the composition is fairly modern and minimalist