Pärt​ - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten - Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic 

thx for the infos!

Mustamäe , Vilde tee 134, Tallinn. 1977. arhiiv.err.ee/vaata/mi-arvo-part

Dave Albrecht , thank you for letting us know the story behind this sublime composition.

Part says he became familiar with Britten’s work only shortly before Britten’s death in 1976. Getting hold of western music was difficult in Estonia. This was composed the following year in 1977.

Thanks for your insightful context .Learning is always a privilege.

@@mariorossi9655 Speak for yourself, sadly l can be a savage

@Waarheids Getrouwe. Very well expressed. I believe Ralph Waldo Emerson would agree with you. How do we free our real selves from the walls we build around us.

@@sailordog1414 Brahma BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.

A lot of proud people and entitled people. Two things I do not like, void of feelings or failures. So they think anyhow.

@Staffan Olofsson. Brilliant Observation.

sometimes this repetition is boring, Re:zero soundtracks are better, i think

I suspect such a young group have so many fears for their future that’s one reason they can perform like this.

@@dissilymordentroge5818 These days fearing future is normal, look at the state of the world and revelation in the bible.

Thank you!

We all live with regret, the composition is a sublime acknowledgement and expression of this

the phrasing, "and now it would not come to that" is like the exact kind of controlled falling a part grace that the music evokes, its like... it is the music, this music phrases loss like, and now it would not come to that. So differnet from saying, now it would not happen. It would not come to that tries to paint it like it was sort of a misshap, like it was on the way from happening but something in the process failed

@@davepowell7168 Regret is a hard lesson to learn but needed.

Celui qui l'a écrit s'est totalement abandonné en sa sensibilité. Dans l'univers si fort d'un état de pensée mélancolique, tel et par exemple un "Adagio pour cordes" d'un Samuel Barber, ici, avec cette œuvre on plonge au plus que tréfond des abysses les plus significatives de la sensibilité. Elle est travaillée justement et pertinemment avec une gamme descendante de la mineur, ajouté en une rythmique médiévale et surtout trochaïque - une longue suivie d'une brève - qui donne tant de force, d'incidence perceptive à son écoute. Ce discours sonore est en soi une absolue merveille en ce sens que dès lors que l'on s'y abandonne à, en, son écoute, cela en est comme si on était pris par le bras par une entité voulant nous entrainer en les merveilleux et si prégnants paysages de son monde...nous y abandonnant si corps, si âme, si sens !

Very sweaty, certainly.

Thanks BSYP, please get soon Vienna on your schedule!

Da capo anywhere I could reach out to you!!!

Louise X Thanks Louise! Just wonderful!

art/heaven is made on Earth and this is the closest we can come it.

@@timhall3575 sorry sir I’m not sure what you’re inferring? Are you agreeing with me or you’re saying a god was responsible?

I don't know tbh - i replied late last night after a few light ales - actually i am saying in the cold light of day that that no God like entity created this work and as an atheist i think i was suggesting through art we create what we imagine 'heaven' is on Earth. So i think I'm agreeing with you:) @@Gleadless

estonishing;D

Oui. Comme un feu sous l'orage. ;-)

Maybe a little slower?

overall fit all, thank gods all you know

Dear Mr. Frankyst I fully agree with your opinion as I too find this [marvellous] Part's page to be really "fascinating and heart touching"!!! Arvo Part is definitely a musical genius.