This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ…
…the solo organ pieces are played by Thomas Leech, who has a clear empathy for the composer’s frequently somewhat idiosyncratic writing for the instrument; as the anonymous booklet-notes eloquently observe, these works ‘explore [exploit?] the instrument’s capacity for stasis and to extract meaning from minimal resources – expressive states so much organ repertoire attempts to cover at all costs’. Such is certainly an apt description for the substantial Annum per annum, whose length makes maintaining a sense of musical narrative a real challenge. The same can be said too for Leech’s outstanding performance of the somewhat impenetrable Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler.
…I have no doubt that these performances, stemming as they do from a living Roman Catholic liturgical context, would meet with [Pärt’s] unqualified approval.

Gramophone