Dad passed away some months ago, a devastating cancer. During his funeral, i heard this masterpiece in my mind again and again: the waves, the stream and its brutal silence at the end, just like a peaceful river fading into the sea.
I first heard this at its Prom’s debut many years ago - I was a young teenager and watch the performance on a black and white television. Music had always been part of my young life but I will never forget the extraordinary impact this had on me - I was moved to the core of my being, I physically could not move after the performance even when the applause had subsided- it was an epiphany for me and deepened my spiritual sensitivity. Thankyou is too little a word Arvo.
5:38 what a breathtaking silence........ it perfectly describes the emotion you get when listening to this masterpiece, it just takes away all your thoughts, it's amazing, can't describe what I'm feeling.
I have listened to this music over and over again. It moves me as no music has ever done. I have a love and hate relaionship with Arvo Pärts musics, but this piece of music of ultimate beauty digs so deep in your soul hat there are no words to describe how the intens feeling. Thank you Arvo for such profound beauty. Hugo Moors (Belgium)
Similarly when Licoln addressed to The American People at Gettysburg he did not receive any applause , ironically he tought to himfelf his Address has been a failure but it was not ...
And this would have pleased Benjamin Britten who disliked audiences immediately applauding no matter how well -intentioned. There has to be a transition from one world to another.
I feel as if every time I hear this song, a soul is making its way to heaven. That final bell toll at the end marks its arrival. Absolutely beautiful song: it's by far my favorite piece for strings. It moves me in a way that I've never been moved by any other piece.
The music is performed only by strings and a single bell. The violins are just like a sharp knife, digging the grief of loss from the deepest of your soul; memories of the dead ones spew out from the wound. Meanwhile, the cellos and double basses, roar to the fate and are so helpless when seeing ones heartbeat slowly falls to silent. Yet, smoothness of the strings as a whole, is just like flowing river, or trying to comfort one's soul. At the end, the bass part create an image of burying the dead body of gentle soil. The continuous bell from the balcony, is akin to the passing time, and the final bell signifies the end of this tender ritual. Although the music lasts only 5 minutes, it feels more than that. Yet, I still hope it even more longer, or even never ends. Yes, this is what I always thought whenever my passed away grandpa enters my mind.
What utter beauty. The waves of hope and despair that wash over me as I listes. The sinking and the rising, the peace and the disturbance. The feeling that there is that hope that will reveal itself in the final bars.The silence at the end by the orchestra and the audience is deafening. That in and of itself creates such a perfect tensin and a perfect peace.
The defining moment of the piece to me is not the first bell, not the tentative beginning, the inexorable descent, or even the tutti Am climax - it is the silence after the final bell rings out, the crushing silence that lets you know your friend is really gone. That's when you cry, and are cleansed. I'm not really religious, but Pärt's music - well, to pinch a movie quote, it somehow makes me want to be a better man.
Une œuvre millimétrique d'agencement sonore, où chaque son procède de ce juste intime si fort qui prend l'auditeur à bras le corps de sa sensibilité. La conversation magnifique entre êtres où aucun mot n'est employé, mais tellement quelque chose...de plus fort et d'éminemment pertinent.
Oh my my my my........ I'm TOTALLY lost for words, the ending is just............ah when the music stops, as the conductor stops his baton; the world just stops too
I witnessed this piece performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall back in the early/mid '90s...gut wrenching! you could her a pin drop after final toll of the bell decayed. memorizing .
BBC Proms audiences become adept, by practise, at reading the mood: 70concerts in a 2 month Prom 'season'.is good training . Give stillness and attention for quiet pieces, exuberance for exuberant pieces. We prommers (the audience) mostly want to wait for the last reverberation to die away in the oval-shaped hall, before applauding. I prom in the Gallery (up top of building) at a princely US$10 a concert. Love the public-funded BBC, Love the BBC Proms.
A buddy (moreso mentor) of mine recommended this song to me when I was just a dumb kid thinking I understood music. I've never thought something written so simply (in terms of the actual manuscript) could ever deliver this much depth. But, it manages to be more and more intense as the song goes on. The resolution almost doesn't feel final. Just sad. What a beautiful piece.
The first time i listened to this composition, I didn't gave attention to the ringing of the bell at the end. But, the first time you hear the rings... no words can describe the impression and the very meaning of the bell overtone...
Un des tout grands compositeurs de notre époque assurément. Il a assimilé la musique du XX° siècle et l' a dépassée en retrouvant spiritualité et consonances. Du très très grand art !
First heard this in Bath Cathedral, during a practice for the Bath Music Festival. One of the Cathedral Bells was used for the Bell part, I had to sit down and listen I was so overwhelmed.
Il brano "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", scritto dal compositore estone Arvo Pärt nel 1976 in onore della morte del suo collega inglese, è un concentrato simbolico di incredibile intensità. Costruito su due dimensioni: quella verticale, degli archi, che partono da registri molto alti (ma non quasi ultrasonici come in “Silentium”), in una cadenza regolare ad intervalli discendenti, arrivano alla fine ad uniformarsi in un tono (forse attorno ad un Sol, ad orecchio non-assoluto), che è come una tenebrosa vibrazione di fondo. La rappresentazione immediata che viene alla mente è quella del passaggio dalla vita (note altissime) alla morte (registro basso). A questa discesa verticale è associata una linea orizzontale, regolare anche questa ma ad intervalli più larghi, di una campana: batte il ritmo della vita, ma il suono è significativamente di tono grave, a rammentare che ogni momento della vita è un passo verso la morte (il rintocco finale). Musica che emoziona, come poche altre comunque - in fondo imperscrutabile.
stunning performance. out of all the music in the world, this was the only piece i could listen to just after the 9/11 attacks in NYC where I'm living.
In this case, it's the silence that lets the audience notice the bell's C# overtone, so that even though the entire piece revolves around A minor, the very last sound is A major. SO BRILLIANT.
To those that either play or know strings... I do neither. But what a harmonious song where it seems as though they touch on every note, key, octave, etc. Just to let the memorium represent everything within his lifetime of compositions come forth in one final piece. It's beautiful, elegant, and a rather obscure piece to dedicate to one of such brilliance. I love it and I thank you for sharing this piece with the world abroad. As it should be heard by everyone. This coming from a jack of all genres of music should mean quite a lot. PLUR.
truly beautiful, enigmatic, touching, somewhat eerie. If the world could only listen to this one piece of music I believe people would be more caring and sensitive towards the living. this music touches me in such a way its almost too good to be real, thank you Arvo for such a heavenly, mystifying piece of music
Ce soir, la musique d'Arvo Part accompagne l'annonce du décès d'un ami cher et lumineux, dont l'étoile irradiante demeurera. A sa mémoire...en fidèle et indéfectible amitié.
Arvo Pärt comes from Estonia - home of mystical nature. We don't have mountains nor waterfalls, but... well this piece describes it, it's just home. Heino Eller - Kodumaine Viis (Home Melody)
When I listen to Cantus it reminds me of what I saw in NY at ground zero when I went to help out after the attack. I cant stop crying. It is emotionally crushing.
This music was used on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (though I'm not really a fan of his) as the footage showed the burning, collapsing towers. A terrible time. Sorry to hear you were there.
I think that in this type of work would be much more interesting that people do not clap, break all the peace and the feeling that conveys the work. Sometimes, when I go to the theater, I cover my ears when they finish playing, not to lose what I conveyed the music.
A moving and personal response to the news of Britten's death, a composer Part had long-admired and was due to meet. I urge people to listen to Britten's music, if only one piece his War Requiem - and if only one part of that "Let us sleep".
As some who's first experience with classical music (if you allow me to use that word) was just now with this song. Wow. It's taken the title of saddest song I've ever heard from God Damn The Sun by Swans. It's so crushing with just the power of a tubular bell, strings and the genius of someone like Pärt. No lyrics, still the most crushing, saddest shit
The cantus was composed as an elegy to mourn the December 1976 death of the English composer Benjamin Britten. Pärt greatly admired Britten . Pärt described Britten as possessing the "unusual purity" that he himself sought as a composer. Pärt viewed the Englishman as a kindred spirit ; however , he gained access to the latter's music only in 1980 , after emigrating from Soviet Estonia to Austria ,four years after Britten had died . When Britten died , Pärt felt that he had lost hope of meeting the only contemporary composer whose musical outlook , he believed , resembled his own .
Gardner and the BBCSO play this, the revised version, on the quick side in common with most modern conductors. The forces do very well to allow the evolution of the split canonical style to be heard in the vast space of of the Royal Albert Hall but careful listening reveals how the entries of primary violins and violas seem to gain a cutting edge while lower strings slowly expand the dynamics. In other words, cutting deeper. It is worth watching Rozhdestvensky with the then BBCSO in the earlier version inclusive of a harp and a second bell in C# being used almost inaudibly in what the Russian maestro (who was a friend of BB) conducts as a large ensemble piece in which he directs without a stick and shows teamwork trust with more emphasis on Part's motifs from Britten works. The composer later simplified and reduced the piece, omitting the harp and using the percussionist's craft and skill to get the last C# without long sustain as the basses and low 'cellos as it were 'seal' the grave. Part explained that he had planned to meet Britten and associates at Aldeburgh and there seemed to be plenty of time -- then suddenly there was none. The work is therefore a saying goodbye to a great composer with whom he had communicated over years but not actually met in person. It is called 'cantus' because of the bell and automatically denotes being at a graveside with only total empty sadness.
Dad passed away some months ago, a devastating cancer. During his funeral, i heard this masterpiece in my mind again and again: the waves, the stream and its brutal silence at the end, just like a peaceful river fading into the sea.
I have no words to describe how hard this music hits me emotionally. I was flooded by goosebumps
18 words exacted your feeling precisely
I once heard this driving to work. I had to pull over until it finished. Devastating.
+Joss Hawthorn I also heard it first while driving ( I don't remember where ) and did my best to memorize the name (before cell phones)
This comment is somehow so dead funny hahaha
I have listened to this thousands of times and still moved to tears.
I first heard this at its Prom’s debut many years ago - I was a young teenager and watch the performance on a black and white television. Music had always been part of my young life but I will never forget the extraordinary impact this had on me - I was moved to the core of my being, I physically could not move after the performance even when the applause had subsided- it was an epiphany for me and deepened my spiritual sensitivity. Thankyou is too little a word Arvo.
C'est de tout beauté ...En l'écoutant, petit à petit vous êtes oppressée par l'émotion qui envahie entièrement votre âme. Un chef d'oeuvre
5:38 what a breathtaking silence........ it perfectly describes the emotion you get when listening to this masterpiece, it just takes away all your thoughts, it's amazing, can't describe what I'm feeling.
My Grandfather passed away just a few hours ago. I think this is the perfect balance of sadness and peace.
@@26aitches Thanks Jonathan. This happened eight years ago but since then this track makes me remember my grandpa.
Beautiful, spacious, moving.
This is life in a single score of music. The double bass at the end hits me.
One word has so many shades of meaning. This work is the one most successful in saying one - "Goodbye".
I have listened to this music over and over again. It moves me as no music has ever done. I have a love and hate relaionship with Arvo Pärts musics, but this piece of music of ultimate beauty digs so deep in your soul hat there are no words to describe how the intens feeling. Thank you Arvo for such profound beauty. Hugo Moors (Belgium)
agree with all but i don't hate Arvo Part
That's an audience to admire, they let themselves absorb the silence at the end, instead of clapping the instant the music stopped.
Similarly when Licoln addressed to The American People at Gettysburg he did not receive any applause , ironically he tought to himfelf his Address has been a failure but it was not ...
And this would have pleased Benjamin Britten who disliked audiences immediately applauding no matter how well -intentioned. There has to be a transition from one world to another.
I feel as if every time I hear this song, a soul is making its way to heaven. That final bell toll at the end marks its arrival. Absolutely beautiful song: it's by far my favorite piece for strings. It moves me in a way that I've never been moved by any other piece.
For me, it’s like a soul finding the gates of heaven shut, and facing eternity alone.
Man, you said it!
who could dislike something this amazing?
God bless Arvo Pärt in all his life, because through his songs, I can find God, in each note, in each chord. Thank you!
Me too!
Arvo Part - is one of the Greatest Composer in history of MUSIC.
that guy on the bell was sensational.
The music is performed only by strings and a single bell. The violins are just like a sharp knife, digging the grief of loss from the deepest of your soul; memories of the dead ones spew out from the wound. Meanwhile, the cellos and double basses, roar to the fate and are so helpless when seeing ones heartbeat slowly falls to silent. Yet, smoothness of the strings as a whole, is just like flowing river, or trying to comfort one's soul. At the end, the bass part create an image of burying the dead body of gentle soil. The continuous bell from the balcony, is akin to the passing time, and the final bell signifies the end of this tender ritual.
Although the music lasts only 5 minutes, it feels more than that. Yet, I still hope it even more longer, or even never ends. Yes, this is what I always thought whenever my passed away grandpa enters my mind.
Fantastic synopsis - you have captured the heartfelt emotion well
Hin Fung Fung you forgot about the violists
@@isabellapineda4465 literally the second line 🤦🏻♂️
What utter beauty. The waves of hope and despair that wash over me as I listes. The sinking and the rising, the peace and the disturbance. The feeling that there is that hope that will reveal itself in the final bars.The silence at the end by the orchestra and the audience is deafening. That in and of itself creates such a perfect tensin and a perfect peace.
I’m not religious there’s no supernatural entity but when I listen to avro part and this piece I can believe in humanities heaven
The defining moment of the piece to me is not the first bell, not the tentative beginning, the inexorable descent, or even the tutti Am climax - it is the silence after the final bell rings out, the crushing silence that lets you know your friend is really gone. That's when you cry, and are cleansed.
I'm not really religious, but Pärt's music - well, to pinch a movie quote, it somehow makes me want to be a better man.
The silences at the beginning and end were written into the music ...
I think not much xdddd
this bells are better and bigger
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Leo ... that is the most beautiful comment I have ever read on youtube. (Low bar i know, but beautiful none the less).
Thank you
I used to be one of those militant atheist types until I listened to music by say, Part and Bach.
a life has never been so captured as this ...
So mysterious and powerful, so many feelings at the same time. It's just hypnotic and amazing ...
I do not know music...but I know beauty. That note they carry on for the last minute or so...wow. Am I the only one who holds their breath?
This is the music of a person who believes there is something unbelievable great...and he nears very humble....thank you
Une œuvre millimétrique d'agencement sonore, où chaque son procède de ce juste intime si fort qui prend l'auditeur à bras le corps de sa sensibilité. La conversation magnifique entre êtres où aucun mot n'est employé, mais tellement quelque chose...de plus fort et d'éminemment pertinent.
Part never fails to amaze me. This is gorgeous.
If your mortal soul does not break into pieces within the first 30 seconds of this song, my friend, I have nothing else to say.
Gracias por publicación Arvo llena el alma... inspirador
Oh my my my my........
I'm TOTALLY lost for words,
the ending is just............ah
when the music stops, as the conductor stops his baton;
the world just stops too
I witnessed this piece performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall back in the early/mid '90s...gut wrenching! you could her a pin drop after final toll of the bell decayed. memorizing
.
Spectacular piece of music. Arvo Pärt, what a genius!
That audience showed some class at the end there.
The opening bell is C which indicates it’s in minor but the last bell is C# which ends it on a major note - beautiful little detail
As a non-musician, I wasn't aware of this. Thank you for sharing it. What moving music this truly is...
Imposible express in words the emotion.
Magique!Je ne peux pas m'en lasser...Emotion presque palpable.
So deeply ,so wonderfully soul-soothing musical work...
that final silence! stunning
Agree.
goosebumps guaranteed!
Not to mention refreshing - there is all too often that one idiot who jumps up and shouts 'Bravo!' before the sound has even started to die away.
Listen to this finale. Alexander Scriabin "symphony 1"
BBC Proms audiences become adept, by practise, at reading the mood: 70concerts in a 2 month Prom 'season'.is good training . Give stillness and attention for quiet pieces, exuberance for exuberant pieces. We prommers (the audience) mostly want to wait for the last reverberation to die away in the oval-shaped hall, before applauding. I prom in the Gallery (up top of building) at a princely US$10 a concert. Love the public-funded BBC, Love the BBC Proms.
Watched this the last week in Sheffield by the Estonians, never heard it before !! very surreal.
A buddy (moreso mentor) of mine recommended this song to me when I was just a dumb kid thinking I understood music.
I've never thought something written so simply (in terms of the actual manuscript) could ever deliver this much depth. But, it manages to be more and more intense as the song goes on.
The resolution almost doesn't feel final. Just sad.
What a beautiful piece.
Gardner and the Beeb did this justice. A beautiful performance.
余韻の中で音楽が完結し
「今に居る」
とにかく素晴らしいのです！
The first time i listened to this composition, I didn't gave attention to the ringing of the bell at the end. But, the first time you hear the rings... no words can describe the impression and the very meaning of the bell overtone...
emotionally crushing
Un des tout grands compositeurs de notre époque assurément. Il a assimilé la musique du XX° siècle et l' a dépassée en retrouvant spiritualité et consonances. Du très très grand art !
First heard this in Bath Cathedral, during a practice for the Bath Music Festival. One of the Cathedral Bells was used for the Bell part, I had to sit down and listen I was so overwhelmed.
Moving and touching !!!!
If there is one piece that I want to hear live in person - its this. devastating
One of my most dearly loved musical works !
Il brano "Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten", scritto dal compositore estone Arvo Pärt nel 1976 in onore della morte del suo collega inglese, è un concentrato simbolico di incredibile intensità. Costruito su due dimensioni: quella verticale, degli archi, che partono da registri molto alti (ma non quasi ultrasonici come in “Silentium”), in una cadenza regolare ad intervalli discendenti, arrivano alla fine ad uniformarsi in un tono (forse attorno ad un Sol, ad orecchio non-assoluto), che è come una tenebrosa vibrazione di fondo. La rappresentazione immediata che viene alla mente è quella del passaggio dalla vita (note altissime) alla morte (registro basso). A questa discesa verticale è associata una linea orizzontale, regolare anche questa ma ad intervalli più larghi, di una campana: batte il ritmo della vita, ma il suono è significativamente di tono grave, a rammentare che ogni momento della vita è un passo verso la morte (il rintocco finale). Musica che emoziona, come poche altre comunque - in fondo imperscrutabile.
Fantastic. Thank you for posting this. Awesome performance.
Parece una composición eterna, sin principio ni fin y lo mejor de todo es que no apetece que acabe nunca.
I love this comment section. People actually sharing their thoughts on the music they’re hearing. Bliss!
stunning performance. out of all the music in the world, this was the only piece i could listen to just after the 9/11 attacks in NYC where I'm living.
In this case, it's the silence that lets the audience notice the bell's C# overtone, so that even though the entire piece revolves around A minor, the very last sound is A major.
SO BRILLIANT.
Inmortal obra de AvroPart !!!!! in memoria al genio de Sir Benjamin Britten !!!!!
To those that either play or know strings... I do neither. But what a harmonious song where it seems as though they touch on every note, key, octave, etc. Just to let the memorium represent everything within his lifetime of compositions come forth in one final piece. It's beautiful, elegant, and a rather obscure piece to dedicate to one of such brilliance. I love it and I thank you for sharing this piece with the world abroad. As it should be heard by everyone. This coming from a jack of all genres of music should mean quite a lot. PLUR.
A stunning masterpiece
Stunning.
Simplemente una obra de arte una maravilla !!!!!BBCSymphony O x EdGardener excelentes
extremely well done, maestro....
truly beautiful, enigmatic, touching, somewhat eerie. If the world could only listen to this one piece of music I believe people would be more caring and sensitive towards the living. this music touches me in such a way its almost too good to be real, thank you Arvo for such a heavenly, mystifying piece of music
Quel hommage!
Lorsque sonne le glas la mémoire de celui parti surgit et LÀ l’on sait que c’est fini…..
Monstrueux de talent
Desde la primera vez que lo escuche, es simplemente cautivadora, suave y bella,
Mesmerizing . . . Utterly moving . . .
Ce soir, la musique d'Arvo Part accompagne l'annonce du décès d'un ami cher et lumineux, dont l'étoile irradiante demeurera. A sa mémoire...en fidèle et indéfectible amitié.
Arvo Pärt comes from Estonia - home of mystical nature. We don't have mountains nor waterfalls, but... well this piece describes it, it's just home. Heino Eller - Kodumaine Viis (Home Melody)
Critics called it "despair distilled" This music was used to great effect in the movie "Mother Night". I tear up every time I hear it.
Who are critics - idiots who think they have something to say - this music is for eternity.
But was this negative criticism? Not just an accurate, two-word summary of this masterpiece?
I didn't know 6 minutes can go past so fast.
Also.......................................... life
sounds like wind, getting stronger and stronger with a small church somewhere, its going to rain, and the wind sudenly stops.
beautiful
Never had been a fan of studying nor playing Pärt's music, but today, this one fits.
At end its tearin´ me inside ... So powerful.
When I listen to Cantus it reminds me of what I saw in NY at ground zero when I went to help out after the attack. I cant stop crying. It is emotionally crushing.
This music was used on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 (though I'm not really a fan of his) as the footage showed the burning, collapsing towers. A terrible time. Sorry to hear you were there.
the best composer live
hypnotic... beautifully done.
Powerful...
Wow, se volverá una pieza favorita para toda mi vida.
I only can cry, and feel soooo i don't know... confuse.
The only thing i have very clear is the fact that, always make me cry.
Fantastische muziek. Zwaar en licht.
extremely well done, maestro!!!!!
Oh to be layed to rest to this would be AMAZING!!
Just imagine being in that room. Wow
I think that in this type of work would be much more interesting that people do not clap, break all the peace and the feeling that conveys the work. Sometimes, when I go to the theater, I cover my ears when they finish playing, not to lose what I conveyed the music.
A moving and personal response to the news of Britten's death, a composer Part had long-admired and was due to meet. I urge people to listen to Britten's music, if only one piece his War Requiem - and if only one part of that "Let us sleep".
amazing
Thank you audience, for waiting for the last note to die, instead of drowning it prematurely. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing
All my respect Arvo
As some who's first experience with classical music (if you allow me to use that word) was just now with this song. Wow. It's taken the title of saddest song I've ever heard from God Damn The Sun by Swans. It's so crushing with just the power of a tubular bell, strings and the genius of someone like Pärt. No lyrics, still the most crushing, saddest shit
The bell is the most interesting sound in, it is clear but independent and unpredictable.
a powerful piece.
Qué pieza tan hermosa y potente!!!
The cantus was composed as an elegy to mourn the December 1976 death of
the English composer Benjamin Britten.
Pärt greatly admired Britten .
Pärt described Britten as possessing the "unusual purity" that he himself
sought as a composer.
Pärt viewed the Englishman as a kindred spirit ; however , he gained access
to the latter's music only in 1980 , after emigrating from Soviet Estonia
to Austria ,four years after Britten had died .
When Britten died , Pärt felt that he had lost hope of meeting the only
contemporary composer whose musical outlook , he believed ,
resembled his own .
Who is crying to this in 2023?
Bravo to Arvo Part.
im so glad that arvo pärt finally gets his full admission
perfect play by the orchestra btw
Stunning!
I like Pärt a lot, but hadn't heard this before. Do I hear (deliberate) echoes of Britten? Truly moving....
Surely yes, many very clear echoes...
Gardner and the BBCSO play this, the revised version, on the quick side in common with most modern conductors.
The forces do very well to allow the evolution of the split canonical style to be heard in the vast space of of the Royal Albert Hall but careful listening reveals how the entries of primary violins and violas seem to gain a cutting edge while lower strings slowly expand the dynamics. In other words, cutting deeper.
It is worth watching Rozhdestvensky with the then BBCSO in the earlier version inclusive of a harp and a second bell in C# being used almost inaudibly in what the Russian maestro (who was a friend of BB) conducts as a large ensemble piece in which he directs without a stick and shows teamwork trust with more emphasis on Part's motifs from Britten works.
The composer later simplified and reduced the piece, omitting the harp and using the percussionist's craft and skill to get the last C# without long sustain as the basses and low 'cellos as it were 'seal' the grave.
Part explained that he had planned to meet Britten and associates at Aldeburgh and there seemed to be plenty of time -- then suddenly there was none. The work is therefore a saying goodbye to a great composer with whom he had communicated over years but not actually met in person. It is called 'cantus' because of the bell and automatically denotes being at a graveside with only total empty sadness.