Sergej Krylov violin, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (LCO) | Arvo Pärt (Арво Пярт) "Fratres"

Arvo Pärt (Арво Пярт) "Fratres"
Sergej Krylov violin, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (LCO)/Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras

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Inspired by chant music, Fratres (Brothers) by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is composed using his tintinnabuli technique. It is a three-part piece, written in 1977, without fixed instrumentation and has been described as a “mesmerising set of variations on a six-bar theme combining frantic activity and sublime stillness that encapsulates Pärt’s observation that ‘the instant and eternity are struggling within us’.
In Pärts own words:
"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers – in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What is it, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this perfect thing appear in many guises – and everything that is unimportant falls away. Tintinnabulation is like this. . . . The three notes of a triad are like bells. And that is why I call it tintinnabulation."
"Tintinnabuli is the mathematically exact connection from one line to another.....tintinnabuli is the rule where the melody and the accompaniment...is one. One and one, it is one – it is not two. This is the secret of this technique." – from a conversation between Arvo Pärt and Antony Pitts recorded for BBC Radio 3.