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Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape : Pärt: Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape: Te aeternam Patrem by Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia album cover

Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape : Pärt: Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape: Te aeternam Patrem

by Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia

About This Song

About "Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape : Pärt: Te Deum (1984/85; rev. 1992) for 3 Choruses, piano, strings and tape: Te aeternam Patrem" by Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia

In 'Te aeternam Patrem,' Pärt strips devotion to its purest skeleton. The chorus intones with bell-like clarity, each syllable a stone dropped into still water. Santa Cecilia creates a hypnotic hush—eternity as a single, sustained tone, where faith feels less like belief and more like gravity.