The whole piece is a meditation on the theme of death. Pärt's biographer suggests that "how we live depends on our relationship with death: how we make music depends on our relationship to silence."It is significant that the piece begins and ends with silence, i.e. that the silence is written in the score. What this means is that although the various instruments appear to enter progressively, they are actually "playing" right from the start. This silence creates a frame around the piece and can be seen as having a religious or spiritual significance. It suggests that we come from silence, and return to silence, it reminds us that before we were born and after we die we are silent with respect to this world.
Det får mig osökt att länka Gidon Kremers "Silencio" (som Spotify av någon anledning tror att Astor Piazzolla, en gammal salsa-räv, framför). En skiva att lyssna på när man vill försvinna i funderande. Förslag på saker att fundera på: Hur stort är universum? När var förra gången någon tänkte exakt samma tanke som jag tänker nu? Varför smakar Anderssons olika beroende på om man dricker ur en grön eller brun flaska?
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