Arvo Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

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Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, "beautifully simple and spiritual" music that she feels a strong connection to; while Paul Griffiths tells of Part's early struggle to find his own voice in Soviet Estonia and subsequent breakthrough with a radical new style he called Tintinnabuli.