Let There Be Delight: Arvo Pärt at Oxford
Born in 1935 in the former Soviet republic of Estonia, Arvo Pärt is the pre-eminent religious composer of our time. His music is at once archaic and abstract-modern; it combines the contemplative devotion and ritual simplicity of medieval plainchant with neo-classical chorale. With its sense of space, stasis and light, the music also reflects something …