Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (1 hour) , sunset in the Estonian bog, 4K

Performed by Jürgen Kruse (piano) and Benjamin Hudson (violin)
Estonian nature
Filmed in summer in Estonia, in Meenikunno bog.
Relaxing sunset to relieve stress.
Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror) is one of the best known and most performed pieces by Arvo Pärt and also one of his last compositions before his departure from Estonia. In 1978, the renowned Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov commissioned a piece from Pärt for violin and piano, and already in December of the same year he premiered it at the Moscow Conservatory with the pianist Boris Bekhterev.
The musical material of Spiegel im Spiegel is presented with utmost clarity and strictness. It only consists of the melody of the solo instrument and the three-note piano accompaniment. The structure of the piece follows a strict formula, where no note is left to chance. The title directly reflects what is happening in the music: each ascending melodic line is followed by a descending mirror phrase. Initially, the melody consists of only two notes, with another note being added with each of the following phrases, thus creating a seemingly endless continuum. After each distancing, the melody returns to the central pitch of A, which, according to the composer, is like “returning home after being away”. The piano part accompanies the melody part at each step like a “guardian angel”, as the composer himself likes to say. In addition to the accompaniment, the piano part includes tintinnabuli notes - like little bells that alternately sound above and below the melodic line, following a fixed formula.
This seemingly simple composition poses a great challenge to a musician in bringing the music alive during the performance. The composer believes that first and foremost, the musician has to have something to say to himself or herself and to others: "Everything redundant must be left aside. Just like the composer has to reduce his ego when writing the music, the musician too must put his ego aside when performing the piece." Purity and innocence are the qualities valued by the composer in the performance of his music.
Spiegel im Spiegel is one of the works of which the composer as well as the musicians have created numerous versions for various instrument combinations. It has often been used in ballet and dance performances, films and documentaries and even in DJ remixes.
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[@JonathanHorwitz]

There are so many beautiful pieces of music in the world. For me, this is one of the most beautiful, looking into eternity, being, forever, further than the Heart can see

[@lilu21]

to me Arvo Pärt was a late discovery, but the one forever. Spiegel im Spiegel, mirror in mirror- soul in a soul , highest concentration of love💕

[@martenaltrov2388]

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[@lucywalker78]

The most serene and beautiful piece of music that has put my baby soundly to sleep ever since she was a newborn. Through the moments I cradled her as she wondered at it all, to her crying into the night; but this music brought inner peace to us both. Next month she turns 2 and I think Spiegel im spiegel will forever be special to us.

[@kellybenneworth-gray798]

Same! I first played this to my son as a newborn to help him sleep. He’s now nine and still asks for it at bedtime. Beautiful music with happy memories!

[@divanemy]

Same here! My one-month old daughter loves it. I am so grateful for this masterpiece

[@suemiller8028]

We use this as night night music for my grandsons. So calming and peaceful.

[@miguelrivas9745]

I've been listening music for years and I didn't know this piece. Pärt returns to the essence of the human being and music: the connection with eternity. Use the basic elements of musical interpretation to reach the sublime of the soul. Majestic

[@roboostenbrink6081]

All stirring and windy noises of this world and my life have slowly faded away here, and I'm taken to a still inner place where nothing exists but this gentle stirring of a voice inside of me, reassuring me that solace is not a hidden and remote dream; it is real, and like a gentle heavenly stream, this gift from God, this soothing solace, flows peacefully into my soul and fills my cup.

[@nonestdubium]

Faces that have passed, into shadows. So many...

[@chilove9955]

I’ve been playing this song almost every night to go to sleep since discovering it about 2 months ago. Glad I found it🥰

[@madeleinebelle2105]

Just preparing for meditation so putting this on...plus it accompanies my slow Qigong workouts...happy zzzzz's.

[@wendyhowden7086]

Me too - xx

[@eleuteria3935]

​@@madeleinebelle2105 very good Idea for the qi gong !

[@babasteTe]

a masterpiece. some days while listening to this, i feel my heart at peace. feeling tranquility, at home 💖 other days this song is painful to hear, when everything inside is broken and apart...

[@anthonydimichele837]

This piece and ALINA by Part are like valuable companions I have known for many years. I listen to Part almost every day.

[@MillyB493]

just heard this on Emmerdale in uk, very beautiful piece of music

[@kellypaul6432]

Same here, heard it and searched for it straight away. Beautiful and so relaxing.

[@MillyB493]

@@toffeeapple7783 I usually don't listen to much classical music, but i had to just find this beautiful piece of music

[@clairwild4101]

Me also, heard on Emmerdale and absolutely had to find this song immediately

[@Anastashya]

Absolutely sublime and touches every emotion ♥️ Thank you for sharing ♥️

[@JazminKnight-kb5fx]

Conversation between two wounded souls ✨❤️‍🩹✨

[@nicholasdankers3452]

Sublime...

[@Catrine1967]

Varmt tack för den frid din musik ger.

[@humanoid1960]

Music is universal!! this piece is just simply magestic!!!

[@mattiamezzina6434]

Quanta grazia e amore in questo brano meraviglioso 🙏💓

[@alinen1882]

Un délicieux goût d'éternité !

[@sayhellosaule4303]

I dont have words i want to die how is beautiful

[@bluelady107]

Ann of Estonia, America has not forgotten you,my friend.

[@micnak3574]

Thank you for posting this. Spiegel I'm Spiegel is my favorite meditation music. I love it when it lasts a whole hour!

[@Tom_Quixote]

Who needs to go to heaven when we can just sink into the bog.

[@sarahjackson5454]

As soon as I hear the notes of the piano something in me settles down and start to relax

[@zmicier2624]

Can't express how im grateful to u for this video Just Thank u.

[@MJBond009]

I used to listen to this song while I was reading a book called “Nightingale” it’s about WW2, now, every time I hear it I only think about this beautiful book. I suggest reading it. It’s stunning.

[@A.G.130]

I never realized until now how much an influence Arvo Part must have been for Sigur Ros, as the beginning melody of Hoppipolla is really reminescent of the arpeggio and atmosphere of this beautiful compositition.

[@Belfreyite]

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling." (Frida Kahlo)

[@delfinalopez2991]

que hermosa música me lleva a un estado de paz interior mui profundo y pensar que está vida no es todo lo que existe

[@SueMetz1]

Exacto!

[@peterwebster3423]

Beautiful, we don’t need religion when man can write heaven

[@humanoid1960]

Spot on!! Well put.

[@marikerge2574]

Arvo Pärt, the author of this piece is a very religious man.

[@peterwebster3423]

@@marikerge2574 yes I do know this I’m not for blatantly obvious reasons, look outside your door !

[@hopemaker5982]

Dear Peter, this beautiful music is therapeutic, but we still need God in an uncertain dangerous world. Jesus is beautiful too! He’s real. He’s alive! Seek & you will find. Matthew 7:7. ❤️🕊🌹

[@peterwebster3423]

@@hopemaker5982 sorry my friend, it’s impossible to conceive if a supernatural entity called god , if there was a designer of the universe he, it , she? Is cruel, a sadist and ignorant Look at what you god has done to us , why did he create us to the murder us , the universe is coming to a end FACT !! What a wicked god you’ve got

[@optik333]

Wow what a piece of music blown away by this and im a drum and bass dj

[@2ridiculous41]

I used t do publicity with people like the Clash and Iggy and there is a huge amount of music from Part to discover.

[@optik333]

Wow what a piece of music

[@heathsavage4852]

I love this piece so much.

[@user-ue3vo3be5v]

아름답습니다...가만히 하던 일을 멈추고 귀기울입니다..

[@conniebruckner8190]

Was mesmerised. So pleased to have found this. Thank you

[@martinenormandin1284]

Sublime

[@miguelrivas9745]

LLevo años escuchando música y no conocía esta pieza. Pärt vuelve a la esencia del ser humano y la música: la conexión con la eternidad. Utiliza los elemento básicos de la interpretación músical para llegar a lo sublime del alma. Majestuoso.

[@susanbrown4561]

This is beautiful to listen to and some superb imagery to watch. So relaxing.

[@PatriciaGoodsonpianist]

Thank you for the explanation of the piece’s construction.

[@glennstevenson6242]

This music is like an anaesthetic.

[@Porkleaker]

Life is a bog.

[@edmondobernardi2011]

Ciò che le parole difficilmente esprimeranno.

[@julieianson.com2722]

This is my favourite piece. I always thought Spiegal im Spiegal meant I'm inside a Mirror looking out at everything that's happened in my life. Anyway it makes me think.

[@rosemarieloxton3279]

Wow, what a beautiful thought for this beautiful music, l love it ❤️

[@toffeeapple7783]

Can we relate the utter sadness of this joy, or am i flying solo?

[@eva_pax7923]

Спасибо

[@krasotulkenson]

спасибо когда мне одиноко или грустно я включаю эту композицию мне будет легче слушать ее в часовом формате

[@Morningisworth]

It seems like being on the lake,so peaceful 🙏🏻

[@lookupthereupinthetrees9860]

Fun fact: this is the Eastern European version/ or equivalent of the tune 'Happy Birthday.' Also, on your birthday in that part of the world you get not a cake, but a potato with a solitary candle on top which is symbolic of ones life glowing in the darkness of existential horror/ despair. So if you've got any Estonian/Romanian/Transylvanian etc friends you now know how to cheer them up on their birthday. 👍

[@ChollieD]

🤣😂😅

[@erictammisaar9588]

An incredibly insulting comment, Also total BS

[@lookupthereupinthetrees9860]

@@erictammisaar9588 honestly man, my life is horrible, I'm just trying to have a laugh. I love this piece of music 👍

[@walnerrocha6431]

Linda, maravilhosa melodia, elevo meus olhos ao ceu de onde virá o meu socorro. Walner Brasil

[@deirdremccanny45]

Thank you 🙏❤️

[@christianbeard2617]

God exists here's a little taster of his Love xx

[@edmundsedmunds]

The difference between a “zone state” or a “flow state” and things like samādhi, recollectio, and such is that the former are spontaneous and sporadic while the latter are cultivated and habitual

[@pilarmorera7988]

Esplèndida melodia!!!

[@sinkpehnarossfire454]

🙂: "Pida Pila miya yeh, a Thank you from a Dakota Lakota NakotaSioux*; music, songs, words......and reading your comments here, "its good to know you, Earth is always busy; and here we are 👋". Appreciate your words. This gentle music...~~~~~....

[@boertieme]

A dream coning alive.. thanks WDR

[@AmielSol2]

thank you for this

[@samuellongo9530]

I had a dream. An utterly beautiful dream. It is my happy dream. A little spark of condensed happiness. When I listened to this music for the first time, in a moment I knew it would become the soundtrack of that dream.

[@kristynorth170]

Any other Hiddlestoners here after song of the day recommendation ? Beautiful piece

[@veldur00]

Hästi tehtud!

[@bettyprovost2163]

Très émue

[@kedaulatanpangan272]

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel (1 hour) , sunset in the Estonian bog, 4K

[@donutmeister]

Gerry!

[@ago1925]

amen

[@rabiaghelalielhaddioui9922]

Beautiful Masha Allah 💚.

[@ludmilachernuha851]

Дыхание Вселенной

[@julieianson.com2722]

If I stare hard enough at the mirror maybe I can see my late husband one last time

[@catkeys6911]

I hope you can still see what HE saw- the woman he loved.💘

[@julieianson.com2722]

@@catkeys6911 Thankyou so much x

[@laracroft5351]

Look into yourself, you‘ll find him there. 💖

[@julieianson.com2722]

@@laracroft5351 I hope so. Theres times I can't remember what he sounded like.

[@laracroft5351]

@@julieianson.com2722 awww, I know, but your heart remembers! Something in your soul is forever influenced and changed through him. Because he has lived, even when subconsciously!

[@joyclark7530]

RIP, Joy.

[@marjajoosten3017]

Ben zeer ontroerd. Normaal gesproken niet zo snel ontroerd. Geeft mij wat troost in deze trieste ontwikkelingen in de wereld.

[@susandart3675]

U

[@cab711]

Anybody else getting a Minecraft vibe from this song?

[@johnnyro8906]

This was background music for the BBC series, Auschwitz. I believe chosen as heavenly counterpoint to the Nazi evil horror. We are what we make of ourselves.

[@joyclark7530]

Saying byebye to my baby.

[@ghost__chips]

[@imy5279]

😔

[@EpicSelenium34]

🇪🇪

[@Porkleaker]

This always reminds me of Dead Island Zombies Outbreak Cinematic Scene HD kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ7MZpV-Zct8rqc I know, it's npt that close but I appreciate both.

[@juancarlosderosas7434]

Muy buena pero monótona

[@ninecatsmagee8384]

Es la escencia que importa mas y las notas lo menos.

[@NotQuiteFirst]

This piece would be better with a dubstep remix