Arvo Part - Lamentate

Written for large orchestra and solo piano, and commissioned for a series of live events at Tate Modern, �Lamentate� was inspired by P�rt�s encounter with the enormous sculpture �Marsyas�, by Bombay-born artist Anish Kapoor. 150 metres long, �Marsyas� filled the Tate Modern�s Turbine Hall for a year. Named for the Greek satyr flayed alive by the god Apollo, the piece consists of three enormous steel rings joined by a single span of dark red PVC membrane. The colour was intended by the artist to suggest blood and the body, and the sculpture dwarfed the viewer, too large to be viewed in its entirety from any single position: �I wanted to make body into sky�, says Kapoor.