Event · Music

Arvo Pärt. Sacred Minimalism. St John’s Church, Tallinn

“Arvo Pärt. Sacred Minimalism” is a chamber concert at St John’s Church in Tallinn. The programme features Arvo Pärt’s well-known works “Fratres”, “Für Alina”, “Spiegel im Spiegel” and “Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka”. Alongside piano and violin, gongs sound, their independent interludes linking the composer’s works into a meditative whole. The concert centres on the clear sound, silence and tintinnabuli style characteristic of Pärt’s music. The acoustics of St John’s Church make it possible to hear both the delicate timbres of the instruments and the long-fading sounds of the gongs. The concert lasts an hour and a half without an interval.