Quatuor pour la fin du temps - A work from a WWII prisoner-of-war camp

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was the most-performed living composer in the world for nine of the years between 2011 and 2022 (and the second-most-performed living composer in 2019, losing top honors to John Williams). In 1976, he developed a new style of composition he referred to as tintinnabuli (“bells” in Latin), which has also been described as spiritual minimalism. Pärt suggests the need to “concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of g...