Miserere [sound recording] / Arvo Pärt.

Author: Pärt, Arvo.

Publisher: Hamburg : ECM, p1991.

Description: 1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Series: ECM new series

Subject: Sarah (Biblical matriarch) Songs and music.
Psalms (Music) 51st Psalm.
Dies irae (Music).
String-orchestra music.
Vocal trios with instrumental ensemble.

Performers: Western Wind Choir ; The Hilliard Ensemble ; Paul Hillier, conductor (1st work) ; Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn ; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor (2nd work) ; Sarah Leonard, soprano ; Rogers Covey-Crump ; John Potter, tenors ; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ ; Pierre Favre, percussion (3rd work).

Notes: Recorded Sept. 1990 at St. Jude's-on-the-Hill, London (1st and 3rd works) ; Dec. 1990 at Beethovenhalle, Bonn (2nd work).
EMC: EMC 1430 (additional no.: 847 539-2).
The 1st work for chorus and orchestra ; includes a Dies Irae interpolation ; the 2nd for string orchestra and ad lib. harp ; the 3rd a vocalise for soprano, 2 tenors, organ, and percussion.
Latin words (1st work.)
Compact disc.
Program notes in German and English, text of 1st work in Latin, with English and German translations, and biblical text about Sarah in German and English ([48] p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Contents: Miserere (34:31) -- Festina Lente (5:24) -- Sarah was ninety years old (25:29).