In Principio

This is an eagerly-awaited record featuring exciting new music from one of the world's most famous living composers. The music provides an impressive overview of Pärt's recent stylistic development covering six touching compositions of different scale and instrumentation written between 1989 and 2005. These are "authentic" premiere recordings made with the composer's assistance: In principio (for mixed choir and orchestra) La Sindone (for orchestra) Cecilia, vergine romana (for mixed choir and orchestra) Da Pacem Domine (for mixed choir and orchestra) Mein Weg (for 14 strings and percussion) Für Lennart in memoriam (for string orchestra) "In Principio" is being released to coincide with the 25-year anniversary of ECM's New Series that was launched with Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" in 1984- the disc which put the composer on the map internationally