This is a recording of a live concert by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, February 23, 2014.

Features the music of Arvo Part and Franz Joseph Haydn.

Written during the French aggression against the Austrians, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War embodies the sounds of battle juxtaposed with prayers for peace. Similarly, Pärt sought to find common ground as a way to bridge warring factions through his music. Performed on this program is an encore performance of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament, praised by critic David Patrick Stearns as “seethingly passionate” and “harmonically explosive.” Two shorter works by Pärt, including the North American premiere of his Estonian Lullaby and Salve Regina, complete the program.

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