Arvo Pärt’s piano works range from his first public statement as a composer, the Zwei Sonatinen, to his latest, the life affirming miniature Für Anna Maria. Moving away from his 1960s atonal language, Pärt found an essence of truth in music embodied in the simple lines of Für Alina. Lamentate is a vast monument which the composer has described as a lament ‘not for the dead, but for the living’. Multi award-winning pianist Ralph van Raat has been praised for his ‘sensitive and technically refined’ playing of Hans Otte’s Book of Sounds (8.572444) (MusicWeb International).

Estonian composer and cult figure Arvo P�rt is a unique figure in the musical world. The utter simplicity of his works, inspired by deep religious feelings, has a strange, hypnotic power over many a listener, reaching beyond the boundaries of traditional classical audiences. Many recordings of P�rt achieve bestselling status. This 2CD set contains the complete music for piano, featuring the well-known 'Spiegel i'm Spiegel', and 'F�r Alina', played by the champion of Minimal Music, Jeroen van Veen, who has recorded for Brilliant Classics several collections of minimalist piano music