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Artist:Arvo Pärt [ more ]
Song:Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Album:Tabula Rasa [ info ]
Released:1977
Last Played:Nov 09, 2012 - 06:09
Avg. Rating:7.8  (Total Ratings: 597)
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1 votes: 12 (2%)2 votes: 9 (1.5%)3 votes: 22 (3.7%)4 votes: 11 (1.8%)5 votes: 8 (1.3%)6 votes: 28 (4.7%)7 votes: 85 (14%)8 votes: 165 (28%)9 votes: 176 (29%)10 votes: 81 (14%)
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Jan 22, 2013 - 06:25 

This is appropriate seeing as 2013 is Britten's centenary. See the Wikipedia entry on him.
ambrebalte
(Beijing most of the time - Wolxheim in France now)
Posted: Jan 12, 2013 - 12:41 

Benjamin Britten - Third Suite for Solo Cello - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXucCVdCgg
madaxeman
(Scottish west coast)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:17 

Utterly beguiling, so sad but so much good music is.
Quovademus
(Töging, Germany)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:14 

Strange Music
rvontha
(Erie, PA)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:13 

Arvo Pärt's work is simply amazing. Thanks, Bill!
Rockit
(Ottawa ON)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:12 

Kleenex Time.
Antigone
(A house, in a Virginian Valley)
Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 07:51 

 Leslie wrote:
I cry now when I hear this song because it reminds me of my mom. I miss her so much.
 

calypsus_1
(East of Eden)
Posted: Aug 26, 2012 - 04:28 

File:Arvo Pärt.jpg
Arvo Part by Woesinger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woesinger/

Arvo Pärt in ChristChurch Cathedral, Dublin, 2008

Copyright All rights reserved





drsteevo
(Location Location)
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 15:09 

nice fade from the Joni Mitchell song
Nat
(Toronto, Canada)
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 15:07 

Wow
JuliaH
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 15:06 

Wow.
perryandcaro
(Down on the farm in SW France)
Posted: Apr 02, 2012 - 04:20 

How incredibly sad, yet beautiful. I put down my pen and was washed away. Thanks Bill
NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:58 

 robco1 wrote:

Apparently meth has reached Germany.

 
{#Lol}

jules44
(Sunny North Carolina)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:57 

Like...even if it is sad.
mike_chouinard
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 11:56 

Arvo Part? That's unexpected but always welcome.
rubenbeagle
(Deep in the heart of Illinois)
Posted: Jan 29, 2012 - 19:46 

Great to have this in the mix!   {#Smile}
fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 07:39 

 StoneyG wrote:
My neck hurts from headbanging to this a little too hard.
 
{#Roflol} I thought this was a brilliantly smooth segue from Joni Mitchell - I couldn't hear the join. This is a moving piece, and deserves to be heard on better than tiny computer speakers.

A Pedant Writes: if cantus is Latin for song, how come there's no singing?

StoneyG
(Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th)
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 17:08 

My neck hurts from headbanging to this a little too hard.
robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Aug 24, 2011 - 16:01 

 Stingray wrote:


READ THE "SUBTITLE"
RP - Rock, Alternative, Blues, World....

I read nothing about hardcore suicide-kling-klang

 
Apparently meth has reached Germany.

errantpenny
Posted: Jul 24, 2011 - 07:09 

I am not sure if Bill intended this as an elegy for the victims of the bombing and shooting in Oslo, but that's how I heard it. I was reading the eyewitness accounts of the massacre, with RP in the background, and when this song came on, it seemed to both mirror my emotions and soothe them. I wondered at the timing of Psychokiller, too.

Anyway, this is a beautiful instrumental piece.
rlr511
(Philadelphia)
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 17:48 

not my fave but definitely enjoy the down tempo.  too bad some other people don't appreciate the hard work Bill does to make our music listening experience amazing.  thanks RP!
ncollingridge
(Knebworth, UK)
Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 12:15 

 Stingray wrote:
I want to ROCK, and ROLL
and be motivated to F***
and smoke a SPLIFF...

Nietzsche and Pärt-vert I can read and listen to on my death-bed!

 
Then go and listen to another station that is designed for pathetic simple-minded losers like you. The rest of us delight in the eclecticism of RP that permits the playing of reflective music like this alongside everything else.
JH_Junior
(São Paulo Brazil)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:57 

Very good Bill !  


Netto
(Khimki, Russia)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:55 

 Leslie wrote:
I cry now when I hear this song ...
 
{#Hug}

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:53 

 Stingray wrote:
READ THE "SUBTITLE"
RP - Rock, Alternative, Blues, World....

I read nothing about hardcore suicide-kling-klang
 
If you find nothing good here, and I find almost no positive posts from you, then why do you hang around?  Masochistic?  Too stupid to find another internet radio station?  Or just so miserable in your own life that you must stir up trouble?

Save yourself further frustration and go somewhere else.
Leslie
(Antioch, CA)
Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 14:50 

I cry now when I hear this song because it reminds me of my mom. I miss her so much.
tom_
(Lucerne, Switzerland)
Posted: Jan 16, 2011 - 08:55 

Thanks Bill,
a wonderful contrast, moments for the brain AND the soul! 
philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Jan 16, 2011 - 08:54 

 Stingray wrote:


READ THE "SUBTITLE"
RP - Rock, Alternative, Blues, World....

I read nothing about hardcore suicide-kling-klang

 
Aw go stuff it!

Bill is a genius and if you don't support the program, that's your problem.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 22:47 

The movie wasn't bad either:

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Nov 14, 2010 - 08:25 

A little too far over the stretch edge for me, Bill.  Nice piece of music, but a little too much out of context.  Thanks, but no thanks. {#No}{#Stop}
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