Arvo Part - Da Pacem Domine (Lamentate)

Arvo Part is an Estonian composer born in 1935. He's considered a classical post-modern composer, and he explores the minimalism and the hypnotic senses that the voice con make. He's the creator of Tintinnabuli - simple style that was influenced by the composer's mystical experiences with chant music. Musically, Pärt's tintinnabular music is characterized by two types of voices, the first of which (dubbed the "tintinnabular voice") arpeggiates the tonic triad, and the second of which moves diatonically in stepwise motion.

The paintings are from the french surrealist painter Yves Tanguy (1900-1955). Yves Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone.

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• Arvo
• Part
• Yves
• Tanguy
• classical
• paintings

[egglybagleface]

what is the name of the second to last painting?

[feneco2]

@egglybagleface "Untitled" XD ... sorry - it has no name...

[enieczka]

It's just a m a z i n g .

Adorable music and charming paintings.

Thank you so much!

[feneco2]

You're welcome - glad you liked it :)

[dier190]

Great music! A composer with a fine sense of equilibrium of feelings. European music tends to rationalize feelings, for the supremacy of ideas. This music is a sense's tranquillizer. It is much more sensitive than medieval polyphony, no longer silencing the listener just for the sake of a doctrine. It surpasses Satie's minimalism by surpassing its pathological melancholy. Music finally reached maturity: it works with silence and emptiness without depressing or irritating itself.

[hymnofashes]

@DelendaEstCarthago1 I agree. Someone on another song accused Part of imitating religious music, and I said that was like accusing Charlie Daniels of imitating country music.

The music has tremendous emotional depth. For me it creates feelings of peace, sadness, humility, fragile beauty, and the infinite.

I'm not a Christian but I think I can understand the music in the context of Christ's martyrdom well enough.

[mbturner625]

@opferte nope, it's the music. it's in freaking latin, man, do you think they understand latin?

[2TwinParrotlets]

Now this is the most breathtakingly beautiful piece of music I've ever heard in my life! Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for uploading it.

[havadatequila]

This is Elf music from LOTR. Elves wrote this shit!

[guibox3]

I hadn't heard this one from Part before. As always, beautiful like all the rest of his choral music. This reminds me of his organ piece Pari Intervallo in it's movement.

[DiabolicBadger]

I find it strange that people say Pärt created "the Tintinnabuli style", as if one can reproduce it. It seems to me that "tintinnabuli" is just what happens when Pärt writes music, a personal concept, maybe even just a word Pärt likes to use to describe his music. So why would you categorize one composer's music with a label like that?

Loving the music and the paintings btw.

[piritapaadilaenutus]

Sorry but it's not the best performance of this piece. The bass doesn't hit the notes correctly so the soprano clashes with him. At some places it's really irritating.

Luckily I had the chance to hear it this year in Estonia at maestro's 75th anniversary concert where the Hilliard's Ensemble performed it, which was great. A genius piece!

[opferte]

@hymnofashes Friend, there is a part of your soul that longs for contact with Jesus and God. That part is what brought tears to your eyes.