Place two mirrors opposite each other, and it is like looking at an accordion from the inside (the Droste effect). Perhaps Arvo Pärt meant something like that when he composed Spiegel im Spiegel in 1976. The string melody also suggests a mirror effect: the violin (or cello) starts from a central tone. The melody expands on both sides of that note, both in high and low. The piano accompanies with
… simple triads. This music is actually nothing, so thinks the common sense. Unless you are willing to go into the mirror, back to a lost time. Spiegel im Spiegel sounds twice on this CD, at the beginning (cell version) and the end (violin version). The entire program is loosely mirrored from the center, so that some pieces and / or titles return. The soloists include , who is a cellist associated with the and the conservatory in Zwolle. (HJ)more
