Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano (125th Anniversary Edition)

125th Anniversary Edition

for violoncello and piano. Score and part.

Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel" for violin (here for violoncello) and piano, written in 1978, illustrates his creative principles: above a permanent flow of chords on the piano, the cello unfolds acantilena in long note values, which grows out of succinct steps. This cantilena spins out sweeping, chorale-like arches and spreads itself out more and more. It thus gives rise to a new architectonic configuration which, like a mediation chapel, stimulaties reflection, prayer or the desire for redemption.