Beyond B A C H - Arvo Pärt and the Minimalist Answer

Arvo Pärt
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A great image of Arvo Pärt, unfolding Bach's sonatas! Pärt is maybe the most obvious example of the profound link between Musica Nova and Baroque. Actually his passion goes much deeper, to the Plainsong and Gregorian Chant., to that very moment when Polyphony started to show its first buds.

Arvo Pärt composed in 1994 a Concerto piccolo über B-A-C-H for trumpet, string orchestra, harpsichord and piano: his answer to the challenge to show the way beyond B-A-C-H. I wanted badly to find a recording, it was impossible. I would have seen how a composer belonging to the Minimalist school was dialoging with Bach; or how could he emphasize the way Bach would sound whether wrapped in Minimalism.

What I found was another work of Arvo Pärt: Collage über BACH - Sarabande. Maybe some answers to the above questions would be found in this work.

(video by Stravinsky91)

(The B A C H motif)

(Arvo Pärt)