I don’t normally listen to music while I’m doing things, but the building site next door has forced me to buy a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and wear them most of the day. I find it quite difficult to choose music – if it’s interesting I don’t get anything done because I listen to it intently. But I can’t just put any old garbage on because it annoys me.
Arvo Pärt has come to my rescue. Pärt is an Estonian composer, born in 1935, and has been composing stunningly beautiful minimalist works since the 1970s. I discovered his music at uni, buried beneath the Beethoven and Bach, and fell quietly in love with it. And now, in my hour of need, Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirrors in Mirrors) for violin and piano, is on repeat, calming my world, filling the holes with honey and stitching up the cracks with a silken thread of sound.
https://youtu.be/n37bNmVggtU?si=52pAfgHstWQ6uYfC
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