There's a theory, probably inaccurate, that musicians of the same national origin as a piece of music tend to deliver the best performances of it. Sure enough, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi are present here, and they deliver superbly controlled performances that are the essence of Pärt's mystic tintinnabuli (akin to the ringing of bells) style. But there's a second level to which the theory can be taken, and it finds spellbinding confirmation here. Things can go deeper than ...
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There's a theory, probably inaccurate, that musicians of the same national origin as a piece of music tend to deliver the best performances of it. Sure enough, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi are present here, and they deliver superbly controlled performances that are the essence of Pärt's mystic tintinnabuli (akin to the ringing of bells) style. But there's a second level to which the theory can be taken, and it finds spellbinding confirmation here. Things can go deeper than nationality, and although violinist Viktoria Mullova is Russian, she shares with Pärt the experience of coming of age musically under a Soviet state bureaucracy and having to find her own way creatively. The result is a Pärt recording that stands out sharply from others on the market. The music offers several of Pärt's big hits from the 1970s and isn't especially unusual, although Mullova offers the short, stark Darf ich... at the beginning, to set the mood for what follows. The solo...
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