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Silouan's Song (version for eight cellos)
Arvo Pärt · b. 1935 · Estonian
For 8 cellos
Level 3 · Upper intermediate — about ABRSM 6 · RCM 7, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String sextet or larger
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Short piece
- Length
- About 6 min
- Composed
- 1991 (2012)
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
Rewritten by Pärt for eight cellos at the suggestion of the Cello Octet Amsterdam; original for strings (1991)