Mystical Minimalism

Arvo Part, Henryk Górecki, John Tavener, Giya Kancheli, Alan Hovhaness, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks, Vladimír Godár, Sofia Gubaidulina, Chris Lastovicka, etc.

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Vladimír Godár was born in 1956 in Brataslava, Slovakia. This piece - Ecce Puer (meaning: behold the child) - is the fourth track from his album Mater.  

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Chris Lastovicka’s music is beautiful, and minimal. Here is The End of Tyranny from the album Fortune Has Turned. The piece is based on a poem of Buddhist influence by E.M. Lauricella.

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Sofia Gubaidulina's The Lyre of Orpheus. Gubaidulina was born in 1934 in Chistopal in the Tatar ASSR.

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Giya Kancheli's Angels of Sorrow. With Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica.