Music Capsule Review

Kanon Pokajanen

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Credits

Lead Performance: Arvo Part; Genre: Classical

By Will Hermes

ARVO PART Kanon Pokajanen (ECM New Series) Championed by Bjork, Michael Stipe, and discerning candle merchants worldwide, Part is a modern Estonian composer deeply influenced by Gregorian chant and other medieval sources. His latest is a landmark a cappella choral work of brooding majesty based on the Russian Orthodox canon of repentance. Ambient-music fans may be a bit overwhelmed. But enter its exquisite polyphony and Christian pathology, and you will be utterly transported. A

Posted Sep 11, 1998

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