Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament

• Adam's Lament

• Beatus Petronius

• Salve Regina

• Statuit ei Dominus

• Alleluia-Tropus

• L'Abbe Agathon

• Estonian Lullaby

• Christmas Lullaby

Latvian Radio Choir

Vox Clamantis

Sinfonietta Rīga

Tui Hirv (Soprano)

Rainer Vilu (Baritone)

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

conductor TÕNU KALJUSTE

The title track of the album Adam’s Lament, released by the record label ECM, is a composition for choir and string orchestra based on a Church Slavonic text by Saint Silouan of Athos (1866–1938), in which he describes Adam’s sorrow over the lost paradise. Adam’s Lament was composed as a joint commission for Istanbul, the 2010 European Capital of Culture, and Tallinn, the 2011 European Capital of Culture, and it premiered in the summer of 2010 in Istanbul. The album was recorded at St. Nicholas’ Church in Tallinn, featuring performances by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, the Latvian Radio Choir, and Vox Clamantis. 

In 2014, conductor Tõnu Kaljuste won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for the recording of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament. Grammy.

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