Playing Pärt 2012

Mängime Pärti

1h 14min Director: Dorian Supin

In Winter and Spring 2011 Arvo Pärt was invited by the school to help them prepare a concert of his music by working with children ranging from kindergarten age to final-year pupils. Film director Dorian Supin and the film studio Minor Film recorded the whole process of the rehearsals and the concert and these recordings were used to make the DVD set, which contains two DVDs. Disc 1Rehearsing Pärt (201 mins) shows the composer leading the rehearsals, and disc 2 Playing Pärt (75 mins) shows the final concert itself. Disc 1 Rehearsing Pärt also includes a conversation entitled "Very Easy and Unexplainable" between Arvo and Nora Pärt.