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Playing Pärt

Original title: Mängime Pärti

2012 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre.

In 2011 the Old Town Music School of Collegium Educationis Revaliae and the International Arvo Pärt Centre together staged a student concert of works by Arvo Pärt in Tallinn`s Swedish St Michael`s Church. The duble DVD package is a recording of the concert and the rehearsals.
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Rehearsing Pärt

Title in Estonian: Proovime Pärti

2012 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

A student concert of works by Arvo Pärt was held in 2011 in the Tallinn Swedish St Michael´s Church as a collaboration between the Old Town Music School in Tallinn and the Arvo Pärt Centre. This is a DVD recording of the rehearsals for the concert.

Unique documentary about Arvo Pärt in the role of a pedagogue while making music together with the students of the Old Town Educational College and tutoring them before the upcoming concert of Arvo Pärt's music. Pärt encourages the young musicians to improvise themselves, gives his advice and mild recommendations in order to fine tune the performances and to find better harmonies. Pärt also tells stories and often illustrates his advices with playing the piano. The documentary shows an emotional creative process where dedicated young people try to perform a diverse choice of Arvo Pärt's music – beginning from the simple children's ...
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Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

Original title: Regilaul - laulud õhust

2011 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Ulrike Koch

This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song.

On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples originated a singing tradition of mysterious power called the Regilaul. These songs are the roots of Estonia’s renowned singing culture. Based on the continuous repetition of eight-syllable verses, they produce a haunting sound able to connect the fleeting present with the eternal circle of life. Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores how Regi songs still fire the imagination today, weaving together people and nature through song.
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The Sum of Absent Days

Original title: Äraoldud päevade summa

2005 | Portrait, Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Marianne Kõrver

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants.

A musical documentary about internationally known Estonian symphonist Eduard Tubin (1905 Tallinn - 1983 Stockholm) who stayed during the most important period of his life abroad, in a closed circle of emigrants. This film is about a powerful creative person who despite of the twists of the destiny wrote ten symphonies and became quite complicated symbol to a small nation.
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Arvo Pärt. 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Original title: Arvo Pärt. 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale

2002 | Portrait, Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Dorian Supin's documentary about Arvo Pärt records the composer's life and creative activities during the two productive years together with Pärt's recollections of the past.

A portrait documentary made of precious moments recorded during three productive years of the composer’s life, the film features rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. Director Dorian Supin succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt’s musical thinking. His work opens a door to the inner world of one of the most spiritually intense composers of our time. The film is enhanced by excerpts from major musical works such as "Tabula Rasa", "Passio", "Fratres", "Orient & Occident", "Cecilia, vergine romana" and "Como cierva sedienta".
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Cecilia

The original title "Cecilia"

2001 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Arvo Pärts´s work Cecilia, Vergine Romana was commissioned by the Agency of Preparations for Holy Years in Roma, appointed by the Pope.

Arvo Pärts´s work Cecilia, Vergine Romana was commissioned by the Agency of Preparations for Holy Years in Roma, appointed by the Pope. The work is dedicated to the Santa Cecilia choir and orchestra of the National Academy and to their conductor Myung-Whun Chung. The film recorded the rehearsals in Rome together with composer Arvo Pärt before the premiere in Rome on 19th of November 2000.
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Orient Occident

2001 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Arvo Pärt´s work Orient Occident was commissioned for the Berliner Festwochen and the premiere was on September 2000 in Berlin.

Arvo Pärt´s work Orient Occident was commissioned for the Berliner Festwochen and the premiere was on September 2000 in Berlin. Film recorded the rehearsals in Tallinn, together with Arvo Pärt, before the premiere in Estonia on 7 April 2001. It was performed by the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste.
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Your Name

Original title: Sinu nimi

2001 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Arvo Pärt´s work, "... which was the son of..." was pecially commissioned for the contcert tour of European capitals of culture in 2000.

Arvo Pärt´s work, "... which was the son of..." was pecially commissioned for the contcert tour of European capitals of culture in 2000. Film recorded the rehearsals of Voices of Europe, youth choir of the European capitals of culture before the premiere in Reykjavik on 26 August 2000. The composer also took part in the rehearsals. The youth choir Voices of Europe included 90 singers from eight countries, aged 16-23. The chief conductor was Thorgerdur Ingolfsdottir.
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Como cierva sedienta

1999 | Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

The concert recording of composer Arvo Pärt's musical work "Como cierva sedienta" in Estonia Concert Hall.

Singer Patricia Rozario and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste) perform the musical work "Como cierva sedienta" by Arvo Pärt in Tallinn Estonia Concert Hall on March 29, 1999.
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And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

Original title: Siis sai õhtu ja sai hommik

1989 | Portrait, Music Documentary, Documentary | Director: Dorian Supin

Film portrait of the composer Arvo Pärt.

I do not create music, it simply exists in the world without a composer. every sculpture is there, in the rock, and the sculptor just releases it from the stone. It`s the same with music; look here, I take the skin off this potato, the musician then cooks it and puts it on the table, but it was God who let it grow - explains Arvo Pärt himself.
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