3 Video: Ailyn Pérez Sings 'Un bel dì' from Puccini’s MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Met Opera 4 Video: 'Che tu madre' from Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Metropolitan Opera Arvo Pärt's Fratres ("Brethren ...

Fratres was a surprise—a shock, even—for a naive grad student in music to discover in 1988. Though by then we’d more or less stopped believing that Schoenberg-style twelve-tone composition or its ...

Arvo Pärt is one of those composers you might think you know: a reclusive, extravagantly bearded Estonian who's ensconced in a world of so-called "holy minimalism" – a reverie of simplicity that ...

The Music: These are the works that put Arvo Pärt on the map in 1984, introducing a then-new but now-familar sound world. Simple chord progressions and harmonic relationships are explored to the point ...

Arvo Pärt’s otherworldly, radiantly euphonious music has become one of the characteristic sounds of the age. It’s regularly pillaged for film scores, and works such as Fratres have been top-selling ...