Credo

(1968)

for piano, mixed choir and orchestra

Short instrumentation: 4 2 3 4 - 4 4 3 1 - timp, perc(5), str

Duration: 12'

Choir: SATB

Solos:

piano

Instrumentation details:

1st piccolo

2nd piccolo

1st flute

2nd flute

1st oboe

2nd oboe

1st clarinet in Bb

2nd clarinet in Bb

1st bass clarinet in Bb

2nd bass clarinet in Bb

1st bassoon

2nd bassoon

1st contrabassoon

2nd contrabassoon

1st horn in F

2nd horn in F

3rd horn in F

4th horn in F

1st trumpet in Bb

2nd trumpet in Bb

3rd trumpet in Bb

4th trumpet in Bb

1st trombone

2nd trombone

3rd trombone

tuba

timpani

percussion(5)

violin I

violin II

viola

violoncello

contrabass

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Pärt: Credo

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Work introduction

In the 1960s I became so fascinated by that central idea of Christianity “Love your enemies” that it gave birth to my composition Credo. The work comprises two musically opposing, colliding worlds: one serial and aleatoric, the other an arrangement of a prelude by Bach. What I wanted to show through the work's unfolding – inexorable like a chain reaction – is how the postulate ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’, harmless as it may seem in its initial stage, only gradually displays the full destructive dimensions of its true face; an escalation of power that, like an avalanche, eventually comes up against its own limits. What at first we perceive as human justice finally turns into its opposite. ‘Do not resist one who is evil’ … ‘Love your enemies’ – there is nothing more radical and enigmatic than these words of Christ, which nearly burst the bounds of our reason. And yet…

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