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Fratres by Arvo Pärt
1/10/09 12:10 amArvo Pärt is a still-living Estonian minimalist composer who writes some of the most stark and beautiful music I've ever heard. Considering most of the things I love by him have been written in my lifetime, it's amazing that there is such easy-to-hear beauty in them (contemporary music is sometimes what I call 'crunchy' - hard to understand aurally, and while I like that (because I love an intellectual challenge), it's not something I can recommend to people who aren't well-versed in contemporary analytical techniques).
This, though, is simply gorgeous, and I think pretty much anyone can hear and understand this piece and the beauty behind it.
Fratres I was originally written in 1977 for string quartet, and then the composer arranged it for solo violin and string orchestra with percussion. It's one of a very few pieces for violin that I truly love. And, Gil Shaham is one of the very few violinists that I truly love.
Fratres by the Gothenburg Symphony, conducted by Neeme Järvi, with Gil Shaham on violin. (If you like this, the album also has Pärt's Tabula Rasa (with Gil on violin) and the 3rd Symphony. Love love love and highly recommend.
So some of you know that I'm writing a music AU where Rodney is a violinist. Well, Rodney sounds just like Gil Shaham - the soundtrack has a ton of pieces by Gil on it. I have Rodney playing this piece - recording it, in fact, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (under Maestro Ronon Dex), with John in the audience.
( Here, have a snippet. )
This, though, is simply gorgeous, and I think pretty much anyone can hear and understand this piece and the beauty behind it.
Fratres I was originally written in 1977 for string quartet, and then the composer arranged it for solo violin and string orchestra with percussion. It's one of a very few pieces for violin that I truly love. And, Gil Shaham is one of the very few violinists that I truly love.
Fratres by the Gothenburg Symphony, conducted by Neeme Järvi, with Gil Shaham on violin. (If you like this, the album also has Pärt's Tabula Rasa (with Gil on violin) and the 3rd Symphony. Love love love and highly recommend.
So some of you know that I'm writing a music AU where Rodney is a violinist. Well, Rodney sounds just like Gil Shaham - the soundtrack has a ton of pieces by Gil on it. I have Rodney playing this piece - recording it, in fact, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (under Maestro Ronon Dex), with John in the audience.
( Here, have a snippet. )
