festina lente

I don't think so, because Pärt comes from dodecaphonic music, and still uses algorithms for composing his pieces.
I really think he solved what you call "the post modern paradoxes".
He found (again?...) in the Number the deep source of every poetry.

I'm really interested in this thing. But at this point I don't understand what do you mean with "the post-modern paradoxes"? If it's the need to recover the past to create something new, I frankly find this piece very beautiful but also very "neo-classic" (the ensamble used, the harmonic choices, the title in latin...). So? :s

In my opinion, this music piece is really one of the 20th century music masterpieces!
We must thank this man to have so brilliantly and humanly solved the post-modern paradoxes!
He OPENS the future of human thinking and feeling, that seemed to have been closed in the late 70's.
Absolutely marvellous!
Unfortunately, how flat it sounds on Youtube...

well put

I wonder if M.C. Escher knew of Arvo Pärt and enjoyed his music. Either way, surely, Arvo Pärt knows of Escher! Thanks for posting.

Escher died long before he could have met Arvo.
I like to think if they had ever met, they'd like each other.

Each artist is a pioneer in his own right.

Thank for their creations.

Our world is better because of them.

? maybe:
"Escher died long before he could have met [musically] Arvo"

Escher 1898-1972

Part 1935-nowadays

By the way, agreed totally, minimalism is the new great style!