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Completed in 1990 (and revised in 1991) for the RIAS Chamber Choir, this is Pärt’s first setting of an English text, and exhibits a consistent approach to each phrase’s metre—short notes flanked by longer ones. A series of upwards chromatic shifts, marked by bass pedal notes in the organ, raises the work’s tonal area to a climax on ‘Amen’ around C sharp minor, before a flurry of quintuplet broken chords in the organ rapidly hurls the music back down to its opening tonality of F minor.

from notes by Meurig Bowen © 1998

Recording details: January 1997
Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: May 1998
Total duration: 7 minutes 1 seconds

The Beatitudes
composer
1990/1
author of text
Matthew 5: 3-12
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