On the trail of Sacred Music

For his latest Sacred Music series, Simon Russell Beale has tracked down today's greatest exponents. He tells Tom Service why this is so much more than mood musicThere's a musical coup in Simon Russell Beale's second series of programmes on Sacred Music for the BBC: an interview with one of the most reclusive but popular composers in the world, the Estonian mystic, Arvo Pärt.Pärt may be the Howard Hughes of classical music, but his fervently spiritual instrumental and choral works, with th...

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