Arvo Pärt: Triodion

Lancing College Choir; Davis, Peter; Cox, Neil; Lancing College Brass

Arvo Part accepted the commission to write a work for Lancing College’s 150th anniversary in December 1996. Given that Benjamin Britten had written the Saint Nicolas cantata for the College’s centenary in 1948, Part originally planned to write a work on a text for Mary, fellow patron of the school. Searching through an Orthodox prayer-book for a suitable passage, he came across a Triodion, a group of three prayers- to Christ, to Mary the Mother of God, and to St. Nicolas. He would later find a 15th century icon from Russia, depicting these same three figures. This recording by the Choir of Lancing College conducted by Neil Cox was made in 1998 in the presence of the composer.

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