December 30, 2002

• Added the following to texts and translations:
  • Cecilia, vergine romana
  • Como sierva sedienta
  • Credo
  • Littlemore Tractus
  • Es sang vor langen Jahren ...

December 29, 2002

• The new texts and translations section of the site has been added. It is not yet complete but the majority of the works are there and more will be added soon. Errors in the text can probably be attributed to me!
• Added a new page where past articles can be browsed.

December 23, 2002

• Updated the news page
• Coming soon is a new section containing the texts and English translations of Pärt's choral works.

December 13, 2002

• Updated the news page with two more links related to the Lament-Tate première

December 11, 2002

• Updated the news page with information on three new world premières
• Added new disc Ninna Nanna to the CD Discography. See the news page for details. This contains two new works.
• Added several redundant CD's to the CD Discography

December 8, 2002

• Added two new discs to the CD Discography
  • Who Is Afraid of 20th Century Music, volume 3
  • Voices of Africa

December 2, 2002

• Updated the news page

November 27, 2002

• Added new disc Annum per annum (Arion ARN68595) to the CD Discography

November 25, 2002

• Updated the news page

November 17, 2002

• Updated the news page

November 14, 2002

• Updated the news page

November 5, 2002

• Updated the news page

October 31, 2002

• Updated the news page

October 25, 2002

• Updated the news page

October 22, 2002

• Oliver Kautny's book Arvo Pärt zwischen Ost und West has been published. Please see the research materials page for details.

October 17, 2002

• Added the film Out of Control to the film compositions page.

September 11, 2002

• Added the upcoming ECM release Orient and Occident to the CD Discography. It will be released on September 24 in the US and September 23 in the UK and possibly other countries.

August 28, 2002

• Updated the news page
• Added new compositions Beatitudines and Salve Regina to the choral works page

August 22, 2002

• Added the following to the CD Discography
  • GUASA NOITCELLOC (2002)
  • Il flauto dolce espressivo (2002)
• Added the following to the research materials page
  • Kautny, Oliver ed. Arvo Pärt. Rezeption und Wirkung seiner Musik, Vorträge des Wuppertaler Symposiums 1999
  • Kautny, Oliver. Rezeptionsgeschichte. Die Differenz zwischen Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation
  • Kautny, Oliver. Arvo Pärt zwischen Ost und West. Rezeptionsgeschichte
  • Kautny, Oliver. "Dem Himmel ein Stück näher... ." Der neoromantische Mythos 'Arvo Pärt'

July 29, 2002

• Added the following to the CD Discography
  • Arvo Pärt: Works for Choir (Beaux 2018)
  • Hans Davidson: Christmas in Lübeck 1705 (Intim Musik IMCD078)
  • Chormusik im 20. Jahrhundert (Rondeau ROP2016)

July 15, 2002

• Added a new book to the research materials page
  • Kälvemark, Torsten. Arvo Pärt. Om musiken vid tystnadens gräns.
• Added a new interview (in French) to the links page
• Added several films to the film music page. All compositions are unknown. Only source is Internet Movie Database. Some of these may be modified or removed as more information is known.
  • Heaven (2002)
  • Gerry (2002)
  • Site (2002)
  • Drei Sterne (2001)
  • Éloge de l'amour (2001)
  • Terres froides, Les (1999) (TV)
  • Après la pluie (1995)
  • Montalvo et l'enfant (1989)
  • Peace (1976/I)

June 17, 2002

• Updated the news page
• Updated the concert information page

June 3, 2002

• Updated the news page

May 7, 2002

• Added a new message board. Please use this resource to ask questions of the readers of this site (as well as myself). You can feel free to email questions to me but I'm not always able to answer them. Use the message board in those instances to see if someone else out there can help.

April 11, 2002

• Major update to the film compositions page. Thanks very much to Doug Maskew for providing new additions or updated information. The affected titles are as follows:
  • Briljandid proletariaadi diktatuurile
  • Õhtust hommikuni
  • Test Pilot Pirxa
  • Rachel River
  • Ukuaru
  • Värvilised unenäod
  • Enderby - valge maa
  • Jääriik
  • Aatomik or Aatomik ja jõmmid
  • Hiirejaht
  • Just nii
  • Kurepoeg
  • Mis? Kes? Kus?
  • Õed
  • Pallid
  • Putukate Suvemängud
  • Veealused
  • Väike motoroller
  • Viimne korstnapühkija
  • Operaator Kõps Seeneriigis
  • Operaator Kõps Marjametsas
  • Operaator Kõps Üksikul Saarel
  • Operaator Kõps Kiviriigis
• Also added some information on a brand new documentary, 24 Preludes to a Fuga, to the film compositions page
• Added a new listing to the CD Discography (Litauisches Kammerorchester - Music aus Litauen, Lettland, Estland)

March 2, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 28, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 25, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 21, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 20, 2002

• Updated the news page with more EPCC articles

February 17, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 16, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 13, 2002

• Updated the news page

February 7, 2002

• Several additions and updates to the film compositions page. Thanks to Pietro Zollo for the information about I Cento Passi and Alan Teder for the rest.
  • I Cento Passi
  • Lessons in Darkness
  • Smoke
  • St. John Passion
  • Uprising (new)
  • Winterschläfer
  • Wisconsin Death Trip
  • Wit (new)
• Updated the news page

February 4, 2002

• Updated the news page

January 10, 2002

• Added information concerning the UK premiere of Orient & Occident to the concert information page

January 10, 2002

• Added two films to the film compositions page
  • La Belle et la bête
  • Le Puits

December 17, 2001

• The new site redesign and content restructuring is now completed. If you encounter any problems or would like to suggest other improvements please let me know. The following is a summary of improvements and new features:
  • Addition of a search page which supports simple keyword searches. The search is executed against locally housed news items, articles, interviews, CD and LP discographies, compositions, links, research items, and film compositions.
  • CD Discography can now be searched and sorted by various criteria. Notes and shopping sources (where available) are now linked directly from each title.
  • LP & Cassette Discography can now be sorted by various criteria and is searchable from the search page
  • Film compositions page can now be searched and sorted by various criteria
  • Composition pages can now be sorted by title or date, are searchable via the search page and include direct links to matching items in the CD and LP Discography
  • My graduate thesis has now been converted to HTML. It does not display correctly in Netscape 4 but does look fine in IE 5 and Netscape 6. Available on the analyses page
  • Added EDITION ERES to the publishers page
• I am always happy to receive information about new CD's, books, magazine articles, internet articles, etc. Please submit whatever information you may have.
• I would like to take the opportunity at this time to once again thank Doug Maskew, Alan Teder, and Stephen Wright for their continued contributions to the Archive. I would also like to again thank Dan Brian for providing this web space as well as for setting up php and database access.
• Updated the news page
• On a negative note, I would like to ask that sites such as http://www.musicolog.com/ refrain from stealing content from this site (eg. the entire works list in the now old format among other things). I spend a lot of time compiling this information, formatting it, and writing scripts to parse files in various formats. I do not appreciate people who "borrow" my work for use on their own pages
• Finally, as it is my absolute favorite time of year, I would like to send best wishes to all readers for this holiday season.

December 12, 2001

• If anyone recorded the US television film Uprising (aired last month) or purchased the video please contact me. I have some questions for you.

December 8, 2001

• Updated the news page

December 2, 2001

• Updated the video page (La Chambre des Officiers)

October 2, 2001

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Tintinnabulum (Winter & Winter 910 055-2 - 2001)
  • Alice: God is My DJ (Wea [Warner Vertrieb] B00004KH56 - 2000)
  • Klassik für Profis (Polygram - 1996)

August 2, 2001

• Updated the news page

July 31, 2001

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Spiegel im spiegel (art records 001 - 2000)
  • The Czardas Duo (2001)
  • Light (CCn'C 01512 - 2001)
• Updated the news page

June 19, 2001

• Updated the works lists based upon the newly published list released by Universal Edition. The works are now sorted in alphabetical order. If a chronological list is preferred please let me know and I'll post one.
• Updated the links page with a new source for scores (Broekmans & Van Poppel B.V.)
• Updated the glossary with several new terms (bitonality, Minimalism, and Neoclassicism)
• Updated the news page with information on the première of Nunc Dimittis

June 10, 2001

• Updated the news page

May 20, 2001

• Updated the concert information page

April 12, 2001

• Updated the news page

April 11, 2001

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Pärt: Johannes-Passion (CD 6 8573871822 1 HK 636 FINLANDIA RECORDS - 2001)
• Updated the news page

April 2, 2001

• Updated the news page

March 29, 2001

• Updated the news page
• Reworked the video page and added several new titles
• Reworked the links page
• Updated and modified the look of the works pages

March 20, 2001

• Updated the news page

February 19, 2001

• Updated the news page

February 6, 2001

• Updated the video page (Te Deum - Arvo Pärt)

February 1, 2001

• Updated the news page

January 19, 2000

• Added/Corrected the following CD Discography entries:
  • Music & The Soul (2000 - VSO Records VSO102)
  • Von Morgens früh... und bis zur Nacht (1999 K&K Verlagsanstalt LC 04457)

January 15, 2000

• Updated the Links page with a link to the Arvo Pärt pages at Universal Edition
• Updated the Concert Information page

January 14, 2000

• Updated the Links page
• Updated the video page (Smoke)
• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Cathedral Voices (2000 - Virgin Classics 7243 5 61788 2 3)
  • Relax More (2000 Classic FM Records CFMCD32)
  • Vokalmusik geistlich (1999 - EKM 2131164)
  • Vokalmusik weltlich (2000 - Gutingi 3052916)
• Updated the Concert Information page

December 30, 2000

• Updated the news page

December 15, 2000

• Updated the Links page with a pointer to the website of Christoph Maria Moosmann
• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Charpentier, Mozart, Verdi & Pärt: Te Deum (Deutsche Grammophon 469 076 2 - 2000)
  • John Tavener: Song for Athene (HMV Classics 574 050 2 - 2000)
• Added a new film to the video page (Mäeküla piimamees)

November 25, 2000

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Helge Antoni, the Piano Experience (dB CD56 - 1999)

November 9, 2000

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa/Collage über B.A.C.H./Symphony no.3 (Naxos 8.553882 - 2000)
  • Bluebird - Music of Contemplation (Decca 466 870-2 - 2000)

October 12, 2000

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • Silencio (Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch #79582 - 2000)
• Updated A Kind of Hush on the Video page

October 10, 2000

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • World Festival of Sacred Music - Europe (CCn'C 00692 - 2000)

October 8, 2000

• Added the following to the CD Discography:
  • How Sweet The Sound - The English Choral Tradition (Debonair Records 2000)
  • Te Deum (Deutsche Grammophon 2000)

September 14, 2000

• Updated the news page

August 13, 2000

• Updated the news page

June 9, 2000

• Updated the news page

June 4, 2000

• Added two items to the research page. Below is information directly from the author:

  It may be of interest for you, that I published two studies about Pärt (in German):  the first is included in my book Zahlen zwischen Struktur und Bedeutung. Zehn analytische Studien zu Kompositionen von Josquin bis Ligeti und Pärt, Peter Lang Verlag 1997. The first chapter titled Die Rationalität des Heiligen Geistes. Analytische Annäherungen an Arvo Pärt deals about parts of the Berliner Messe and Summa. (You can order this book via Internet: http://www.peterlang.com). The second study is a brief article in the periodical "Wort und Antwort" (July/Sept. 1998) with the title  Arvo Pärt - Grenzgänger zwischen Ost und West.

• Updated the news page
• Updated the concert information page

May 12, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Added a link to the homepage of the Varsari Singers to the links page

April 29, 2000

• Added the following disc to the CD Discography
  • Ancient Paths (1999, Wellspring WSPRING16CD)

April 29, 2000

• Updated the news page

April 27, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Updated the video page

April 18, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Added two new discs to the CD Discography
  • Piano Icons for the 21st Century (Linn Records CKD111, 2000)
  • Good Medicine (Glissando 779003-2, 2000)
• Added a new link to the links page. This is part of the Saint Paul Sunday site and includes audio samples of some rare works!

April 12, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Added the UE number for Darf ich... on the orchestral works page

April 9, 2000

• Added a shopping source for the Triodion disc mentioned on April 2nd.

April 6, 2000

• Updated the news page

April 4, 2000

• Updated the news page

April 2, 2000

• Added a new disc to the CD Discography: Triodion (Claudio Records CC4943-2)
• Updated the news page

March 21, 2000

• Added two world premieres to the concert information page

March 12, 2000

• Updated the links page
• Added a "coming soon" entry to the CD Discography (Silencio)
• Updated the news page

March 3, 2000

• Updated the concert infomation page
• Added a link to a Tõnu Kaljuste page to the links page
• Added a two videos to the video page
  • Ukuaru (Uku's Understanding)
  • Kurepoeg (Son of Crane)
• Updated the CD Discography
  • Bruno Lukk: klaver/piano (Eesti Klaveriõpetajate Ühing - 1999)
  • Kari Jussila ja Kaj-Erik Gustafsson: Soittavat Paraisten Kirkon Urkuja (YLE CDY634 - 1999)
  • Aare-Paul Lattik: Estnische Orgellandschaft (Eres CD102 - 1999)
  • Shostakovich, Penderecki, Pärt, Schnittke (Nimbus NI 5631 - 2000)

February 24, 2000

• Updated the news page

February 23, 2000

• Updated the news page

February 22, 2000

• Updated the news page

February 20, 2000

• Updated the news page

February 16, 2000

• Updated the news page

February 15, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Removed several past concerts from the concert information page

February 8, 2000

• Updated the news page
• Added a link to Paavo Järvi's homepage on the Links page

February 3, 2000

• Updated the news page

January 29, 2000

• Updated the CD Discography with several re-issues and one legitimately new release
  • Lunds Vokalensemble Live in Stockholm (1999)
  • Reflections (1999 Supraphon)
  • Meisterhaft gespielt: Das Cello (2) (1995 Koch Schwann )
  • Great Music - Small Talk - Gorecki/Pärt (1997 EMI Classics)
  • Joyous Light: Choral Highlights (1998 Collins Classics 16152)
  • Arvo Pärt Pari Intervallo (2000 OLYMPIA OCD 679)
• Updated the concert information page with a URL for the February 11, 2000 Kansas City EPCC concert
• Updated the video page (Wisconsin Death Trip 1999)
• Updated the news page

January 23, 2000

• Updated the news page and the concert information page with details on the premiere of a new Pärt composition

January 21, 2000

• Updated the links page

January 18, 2000

• Updated the news page

January 10, 2000

• Added the following to the CD discography
  • 30 Jahre Musikprotokoll (Moderne in Österreich 1968-1997) (ORF CDMP30/1-6 - 1997)
• Added two new articles to the news page

December 28, 1999

Welcome to the new home of the Arvo Pärt Information Archive! My special thanks goes to Dan Brian for graciously providing this domain and his services as a developer. Dan will be playing a major role in the further development of this site in the coming weeks. I will have more information on that shortly. In the meantime please inform any other interested readers about the move to the new domain.

December 19, 1999

• Added the following to the CD discography
  • Music of The Night (Classico CLASSCD270, 1999)
• Updated the concert information page with a link to a press release regarding the Toronto, Canada EPCC concerts

December 8, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Added the following to the CD discography
  • Spring tour 1998 (Comprehensive Sound Services, 1998)
  • Holy Minimalism (EMI 7243 5 73166 2 0, 1999)
  • Illegal Harmonies (ABC Classics 456 668-2, 1997)
  • The Margaret Throsby Collection (ABC Classics 456 671-2, 1997)
  • Out of the Night (Sony Classical SK 61753, 1999) - currently only a European release
  • Jean-Luc Godard - Histoire(s) du cinema (ECM 1706, 1999) - This one is in the "Complete Information Unknown" section
• Added the following to the LP and Cassette Discography
  • Over The Hills and Far Away (Warner Music Australia 4509971604, 1994)
• Added CD Shopping Sources for the two ABC Classics discs listed above

November 24, 1999

• Added the following CD's to the CD discography
  • Beata Blessed (Terpsichore CD 0197, 1997)
  • Best of WNYC live. Vol 1 (CDC Records/WNYC Radio, 1999)
  • Radiant Light - Songs for the Millenium (Dorian 93191, 1999)
• Added the following to the LP and Cassette Discography
  • Choral Society spring concert (Bridgewater State College Audio Center, 1999)
• Updated the Concert Information page with a link for the EPCC Chicago concert

November 20, 1999

• Updated the news page with information about the premiere of Cantique des degrés

November 18, 1999

• Updated the news page.
• Small corrections to the Video page (Les Amants du Pont Neuf)
• If you notice any broken links, etc. please let me know so I can correct them.

November 14, 1999

• Updated the concert information page

November 10, 1999

• Updated the news page with an exciting new CD announcement
• Updated the concert information page with more URL's to information about the EPCC's tour dates. Thanks again to Alan Teder.

November 9, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Added several EPCC tour dates to the concert information page. Thanks very much to Alan Teder for gathering all of these together!
• Added another Pärt related work to the Video page (Little Buddha)

October 31, 1999

• Updated the news page

October 27, 1999

• Updated the CD discography (Over The Hills And Far Away 1994; Warner Music Australia 4509971602)
• Added several items to the news page

October 21, 1999

• I've received a few possibilities for where to order Pärt scores. I have added a section to the Links page to list these sites. If anyone has other sites that they can recommend, please pass them on to me.
• Related to the scores issue is an announcement I received from Universal Edition:

  Since August, Warner Bros. Publications has assumed distribution of the entire Universal Edition catalog, which of course includes Arvo Pärt's works. Anyone looking to buy Pärt scores can simply place an order at their local dealer. So long as the dealer is aware that Warner is distributing the UE catalog, there should be absolutely no problem ordering the music.

  WARNER BROS. PUBLICATIONS U.S. INC.
  15800 N.W. 48th Avenue
  Miami, FL 33014
  Bus: (305) 620-1500

October 10, 1999

• Added the following CD's to the CD discography:
  • Roxanna Panufnik: Westminster Mass (1999 Teldec 3984-28069-2)

October 5, 1999

• Updated the news page

October 3, 1999

• Added the following CD's to the CD discography:
  • De Profundis (HMX 2957182)
  • Alina (ECM New Series 1591 / 449 958-2)

Alina has not yet been released in the U.S. The European release date is October 25. I like to order my European discs from MDT Export. De Profundis is simply a budget re-release of the Harmonia Mundi disc.

September 20, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Added the following CD's to the CD discography:
  • Magic of Christmas (CBC Records SMCD5192 (1998))
  • Praise Him All Ye Angels (Evensong from Magdalen College) (Isis Records CD034 (1998))
  • Insomnia (Philips 456 016 2 (1999))
  • Alone...again or at last (Black Box BBM1018 (1999))
  • Soundtrack to the Martin Brest movie "Meet Joe Black" (Universal UND 53229 (1998))

September 13, 1999

• Updated the news page

August 23, 1999

• Updated the CD discography [Transformations (1999 - Black Box BBM 1025); Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (1999 - Priory PRCD664)

August 9, 1999

• Updated the CD discography with a new disc and a "new" disc. [ Tabula rasa/Fratres/Symphony No.3 (DG CD 457 647-2); Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa (CD HMV 5 72315 2) ]. I don't believe the DG disc has been released in the U.S. as of yet but is out in Europe. I'm also not sure about the HMV disc.

July 18, 1999

• Updated the concert information page and the news page

June 15, 1999

• Updated the CD discography. (Magnificat- 1999, Guild GMCD 7158)

June 10, 1999

• Updated the concert information page
• In the next review of the German musicological journal "Archiv für Musikwissenschaften" will be an article about Arvo Pärt by Oliver Kautny:

  Oliver Kautny: Arvo Pärts ‘Passio’ und Johann Sebastian Bachs
  ‘Johannespassion’ - Rezeptionsästhetische Perspektiven. In: Archiv für
  Musikwissenschaft 3 (1999), S. 198-222.

  I have added this to the research page

May 27, 1999

• Updated the news page with another article concerning Como anhela la cierva. There is also an announcement concerning a new Universal Edition publication.

May 21, 1999

• Updated the news page

May 11, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Updated the concert information page

May 6, 1999

• Added two "new" discs to the CD discography. Both contain the same performance: Resurrection; Part I-Composed Music Works 16 (1998) and Ante-Post Carl Orff (1998).
• Added a shopping source for the discs mentioned above

April 25, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Added a "new" disc to the CD discography: Ivor Cutler: Cute (H)ey? (1999)

April 8, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Updated the concert information page with a concert and public meeting with Pärt in Rome, Italy next week.

March 31, 1999

• Updated the CD discography (John Tavener - Mandelion)

March 24, 1999

• Updated the concert information page with two summer organ concerts by Friedemann Herz

March 19, 1999

• The Naxos recording mentioned on 3-15 will not be released.
• Updated the news page with an article by Alan Teder on new ECM releases.

March 17, 1999

• I apologize for the unsightly and visually unprofessional Xoom.com frame at the top of every page. It's as much of a surprise and annoyance to me as it is to you.

March 15, 1999

• Updated the "Coming Soon" section of the CD discography (Hommage à Nelson Mandela)

March 4, 1999

• Updated the news page.

February 25, 1999

• Updated the news page.

February 7, 1999

• Updated the news page.

January 27, 1999

• Updated the CD discography (The Geography of the Soul). This was added to a new section at the bottom of the page called "Related CD's."
• Updated the news page.

January 22, 1999

• Updated the news page
• Updated the CD discography (Soaring with Agamemnon)

January 8, 1999

• Updated the CD discography with complete information on Suite Enfantine (1998 - Fleur De Son 57936)

January 1, 1999

• Updated the concert information page
• Happy New Year!

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