Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (1 hour) , sunset in the Estonian bog, 4K
Ойын-сауық
Performed by Jürgen Kruse (piano) and Benjamin Hudson (violin)
Estonian nature
Filmed in summer in Estonia, in Meenikunno bog.
Relaxing sunset to relieve stress.
Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror) is one of the best known and most performed pieces by Arvo Pärt and also one of his last compositions before his departure from Estonia. In 1978, the renowned Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov commissioned a piece from Pärt for violin and piano, and already in December of the same year he premiered it at the Moscow Conservatory with the pianist Boris Bekhterev.
The musical material of Spiegel im Spiegel is presented with utmost clarity and strictness. It only consists of the melody of the solo instrument and the three-note piano accompaniment. The structure of the piece follows a strict formula, where no note is left to chance. The title directly reflects what is happening in the music: each ascending melodic line is followed by a descending mirror phrase. Initially, the melody consists of only two notes, with another note being added with each of the following phrases, thus creating a seemingly endless continuum. After each distancing, the melody returns to the central pitch of A, which, according to the composer, is like “returning home after being away”. The piano part accompanies the melody part at each step like a “guardian angel”, as the composer himself likes to say. In addition to the accompaniment, the piano part includes tintinnabuli notes - like little bells that alternately sound above and below the melodic line, following a fixed formula.
This seemingly simple composition poses a great challenge to a musician in bringing the music alive during the performance. The composer believes that first and foremost, the musician has to have something to say to himself or herself and to others: "Everything redundant must be left aside. Just like the composer has to reduce his ego when writing the music, the musician too must put his ego aside when performing the piece." Purity and innocence are the qualities valued by the composer in the performance of his music.
Spiegel im Spiegel is one of the works of which the composer as well as the musicians have created numerous versions for various instrument combinations. It has often been used in ballet and dance performances, films and documentaries and even in DJ remixes.
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There are so many beautiful pieces of music in the world. For me, this is one of the most beautiful, looking into eternity, being, forever, further than the Heart can see
@lilu21
2 жыл бұрын
to me Arvo Pärt was a late discovery, but the one forever. Spiegel im Spiegel, mirror in mirror- soul in a soul , highest concentration of love💕
@martenaltrov2388
8 ай бұрын
@@lilu21-aa-apho
The most serene and beautiful piece of music that has put my baby soundly to sleep ever since she was a newborn. Through the moments I cradled her as she wondered at it all, to her crying into the night; but this music brought inner peace to us both. Next month she turns 2 and I think Spiegel im spiegel will forever be special to us.
@kellybenneworth-gray798
Жыл бұрын
Same! I first played this to my son as a newborn to help him sleep. He’s now nine and still asks for it at bedtime. Beautiful music with happy memories!
@divanemy
Жыл бұрын
Same here! My one-month old daughter loves it. I am so grateful for this masterpiece
All stirring and windy noises of this world and my life have slowly faded away here, and I'm taken to a still inner place where nothing exists but this gentle stirring of a voice inside of me, reassuring me that solace is not a hidden and remote dream; it is real, and like a gentle heavenly stream, this gift from God, this soothing solace, flows peacefully into my soul and fills my cup.
In a world full of hatred and violence, we get this masterpiece of tranquility.
We use this as night night music for my grandsons. So calming and peaceful.
I've been listening music for years and I didn't know this piece. Pärt returns to the essence of the human being and music: the connection with eternity. Use the basic elements of musical interpretation to reach the sublime of the soul. Majestic
Thank you for posting this. Spiegel I'm Spiegel is my favorite meditation music. I love it when it lasts a whole hour!
a masterpiece. some days while listening to this, i feel my heart at peace. feeling tranquility, at home 💖 other days this song is painful to hear, when everything inside is broken and apart...
I’ve been playing this song almost every night to go to sleep since discovering it about 2 months ago. Glad I found it🥰
@madeleinebelle2105
Жыл бұрын
Just preparing for meditation so putting this on...plus it accompanies my slow Qigong workouts...happy zzzzz's.
@wendyhowden7086
Жыл бұрын
Me too - xx
@eleuteria3935
Жыл бұрын
@@madeleinebelle2105 very good Idea for the qi gong !
Music is universal!! this piece is just simply magestic!!!
Can't express how im grateful to u for this video Just Thank u.
I used to listen to this song while I was reading a book called “Nightingale” it’s about WW2, now, every time I hear it I only think about this beautiful book. I suggest reading it. It’s stunning.
Absolutely sublime and touches every emotion ♥️ Thank you for sharing ♥️
Ann of Estonia, America has not forgotten you,my friend.
Un délicieux goût d'éternité !
Quanta grazia e amore in questo brano meraviglioso 🙏💓
Faces that have passed, into shadows. So many...
just heard this on Emmerdale in uk, very beautiful piece of music
@kellypaul6432
Жыл бұрын
Same here, heard it and searched for it straight away. Beautiful and so relaxing.
@MillyB493
Жыл бұрын
@@toffeeapple7783 I usually don't listen to much classical music, but i had to just find this beautiful piece of music
@clairwild4101
Жыл бұрын
Me also, heard on Emmerdale and absolutely had to find this song immediately
As soon as I hear the notes of the piano something in me settles down and start to relax
This is beautiful to listen to and some superb imagery to watch. So relaxing.
I love this piece so much.
I never realized until now how much an influence Arvo Part must have been for Sigur Ros, as the beginning melody of Hoppipolla is really reminescent of the arpeggio and atmosphere of this beautiful compositition.
Was mesmerised. So pleased to have found this. Thank you
Thank you for the explanation of the piece’s construction.
Who needs to go to heaven when we can just sink into the bog.
"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." (Frida Kahlo)
It seems like being on the lake,so peaceful 🙏🏻
Wow what a piece of music blown away by this and im a drum and bass dj
@2ridiculous41
2 жыл бұрын
I used t do publicity with people like the Clash and Iggy and there is a huge amount of music from Part to discover.
LLevo años escuchando música y no conocía esta pieza. Pärt vuelve a la esencia del ser humano y la música: la conexión con la eternidad. Utiliza los elemento básicos de la interpretación músical para llegar a lo sublime del alma. Majestuoso.
Wow what a piece of music
que hermosa música me lleva a un estado de paz interior mui profundo y pensar que está vida no es todo lo que existe
@SueMetz1
Жыл бұрын
Exacto!
Sublime...
@Catrine1967
2 жыл бұрын
Varmt tack för den frid din musik ger.
Can we relate the utter sadness of this joy, or am i flying solo?
Linda, maravilhosa melodia, elevo meus olhos ao ceu de onde virá o meu socorro. Walner Brasil
Спасибо
Thank you 🙏❤️
спасибо когда мне одиноко или грустно я включаю эту композицию мне будет легче слушать ее в часовом формате
아름답습니다...가만히 하던 일을 멈추고 귀기울입니다..
Esplèndida melodia!!!
This is my favourite piece. I always thought Spiegal im Spiegal meant I'm inside a Mirror looking out at everything that's happened in my life. Anyway it makes me think.
@rosemarieloxton3279
Жыл бұрын
Wow, what a beautiful thought for this beautiful music, l love it ❤️
Beautiful, we don’t need religion when man can write heaven
@humanoid1960
2 жыл бұрын
Spot on!! Well put.
@marikerge2574
2 жыл бұрын
Arvo Pärt, the author of this piece is a very religious man.
@peterwebster3423
2 жыл бұрын
@@marikerge2574 yes I do know this I’m not for blatantly obvious reasons, look outside your door !
@hopemaker5982
2 жыл бұрын
Dear Peter, this beautiful music is therapeutic, but we still need God in an uncertain dangerous world. Jesus is beautiful too! He’s real. He’s alive! Seek & you will find. Matthew 7:7. ❤️🕊🌹
@peterwebster3423
2 жыл бұрын
@@hopemaker5982 sorry my friend, it’s impossible to conceive if a supernatural entity called god , if there was a designer of the universe he, it , she? Is cruel, a sadist and ignorant Look at what you god has done to us , why did he create us to the murder us , the universe is coming to a end FACT !! What a wicked god you’ve got
Life is a bog.
I dont have words i want to die how is beautiful
Sublime
The difference between a “zone state” or a “flow state” and things like samādhi, recollectio, and such is that the former are spontaneous and sporadic while the latter are cultivated and habitual
I had a dream. An utterly beautiful dream. It is my happy dream. A little spark of condensed happiness. When I listened to this music for the first time, in a moment I knew it would become the soundtrack of that dream.
Conversation between two wounded souls ✨❤️🩹✨
This music is like an anaesthetic.
Ciò che le parole difficilmente esprimeranno.
thank you for this
Any other Hiddlestoners here after song of the day recommendation ? Beautiful piece
🙂: "Pida Pila miya yeh, a Thank you from a Dakota Lakota NakotaSioux*; music, songs, words......and reading your comments here, "its good to know you, Earth is always busy; and here we are 👋". Appreciate your words. This gentle music...~~~~~....
Fun fact: this is the Eastern European version/ or equivalent of the tune 'Happy Birthday.' Also, on your birthday in that part of the world you get not a cake, but a potato with a solitary candle on top which is symbolic of ones life glowing in the darkness of existential horror/ despair. So if you've got any Estonian/Romanian/Transylvanian etc friends you now know how to cheer them up on their birthday. 👍
@ChollieD
2 жыл бұрын
🤣😂😅
@erictammisaar9588
Жыл бұрын
An incredibly insulting comment, Also total BS
@lookupthereupinthetrees9860
Жыл бұрын
@@erictammisaar9588 honestly man, my life is horrible, I'm just trying to have a laugh. I love this piece of music 👍
Gerry!
Hästi tehtud!
Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (1 hour) , sunset in the Estonian bog, 4K
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If I stare hard enough at the mirror maybe I can see my late husband one last time
@catkeys6911
Жыл бұрын
I hope you can still see what HE saw- the woman he loved.💘
@julieianson.com2722
Жыл бұрын
@@catkeys6911 Thankyou so much x
@laracroft5351
Жыл бұрын
Look into yourself, you‘ll find him there. 💖
@julieianson.com2722
Жыл бұрын
@@laracroft5351 I hope so. Theres times I can't remember what he sounded like.
@laracroft5351
Жыл бұрын
@@julieianson.com2722 awww, I know, but your heart remembers! Something in your soul is forever influenced and changed through him. Because he has lived, even when subconsciously!
Très émue
A dream coning alive.. thanks WDR
Beautiful Masha Allah 💚.
Дыхание Вселенной
God exists here's a little taster of his Love xx
RIP, Joy.
Ben zeer ontroerd. Normaal gesproken niet zo snel ontroerd. Geeft mij wat troost in deze trieste ontwikkelingen in de wereld.
U
Saying byebye to my baby.
@ghost__chips
Жыл бұрын
@imy5279
7 ай бұрын
😔
Anybody else getting a Minecraft vibe from this song?
This was background music for the BBC series, Auschwitz. I believe chosen as heavenly counterpoint to the Nazi evil horror. We are what we make of ourselves.
🇪🇪
Muy buena pero monótona
@ninecatsmagee8384
6 ай бұрын
Es la escencia que importa mas y las notas lo menos.
This always reminds me of Dead Island Zombies Outbreak Cinematic Scene HD kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKGdl8SBYMmvqKg.html I know, it's npt that close but I appreciate both.
This piece would be better with a dubstep remix