Spiegel im Spiegel

Dance

• David Nixon's Dracula performed by the Northern Ballet (UK, 2009)
• Pilobolus' Rushes in a scene choreographed using chairs. (US, 2007)
• Christopher Wheeldon's 2005 ballet After the Rain, part two (Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" is the score to part one)
• John Neumeier's ballet Othello (1985), the central pas de deux (Pärt's "Tabula Rasa" is the score to part two)
• Mats Ek's Smoke performed by Sylvie Guillem and Niklas Ek (1995)
• Stephen Mills' Desire performed by Ballet Austin (1998)

Theatre

• The New York production of Eurydice, a play by Sarah Ruhl (2007)
• Venezuelan production called 120 vidas x minuto ("120 Lives a Minute"), a play by Gustavo Ott (2007)
• Czech production of Forgotten Light ("Zapomenuté světlo"), a play by Jakub Deml
• French production of The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) a play by Daniel Jeanneteau (2016)[4]
• Canadian production of Othello, a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Ian Farthing at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival (2012)

Television

• The BBC documentary Touched by Auschwitz (2015)
• The BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2005) (which also used Fratres)
• The BBC drama Hattie (2011)
• The RTS and Colossal production documentary "Izgubljeni orden" (The Lost Medal) (2010)
• The BBC television series Criminal Justice (2009)
• The BBC medical drama Casualty (2008, 2010) and its spin-off show Holby City (2016, 2019)
• The season two episode of Supernatural, titled "What is and What Should Never Be" (2007)
• The BBC dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South' (2004)
• The BBC documentary Century of the Self by Adam Curtis (2002)
• The BBC documentary John Steinbeck: Voice of America by Melvyn Bragg (2011)
• The FOX television show The Simpsons episode 534 Yolo (2013)
• The RTÉ News, on New Year's Eve, at the end of news editions as a memorial to victims of road traffic deaths during the year
• The Carlton series The Wrong Side of the Rainbow (2001)
• The S4C television drama Gwaith/Cartref (2015).
• The BBC documentary The Secret Life of Chaos (2010) presented by Jim Al-Khalili
• The season four episode and series finale of The Good Place, titled "Whenever You're Ready" (2020)[5]
• The BBC documentary series Modern Masters, uses it in the second episode about Henri Matisse. Presented by Alastair Sooke. (2010)
• The ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2022)

Sport

• U.S. ice dancers Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani in their free dance titled Evolution for the season 2016-17.
• Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva adapted this song as her short programme music for two seasons: 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.

Recordings

Spiegel im Spiegel was recorded by Gidon Kremer and Elena Kremer in December 1979 and featured on the 1980 album Konzert nach dem Konzert on the Eurodisc label. Spiegel im Spiegel is featured on the 1999 album Alina on the ECM New Series label. The album, which was recorded with the participation of Pärt, includes three versions of Spiegel im Spiegel, two for violin and piano and one for cello and piano, alternated with two variations of Pärt’s piano piece Für Alina.[6] The tempo of the first version of Spiegel im Spiegel is 69 bpm (larghetto or adagio) and has a more somber feel. The tempo of the second version is faster at 85 bpm (andante) and gives the sense of pushing forward. The tempo of the third version is faster than the first and slower than the second at 78 bpm (a slower andante).

Spiegel im Spiegel is featured on the 2016 album Sacred by Australian violinist Niki Vasilakis and features Deanna Djuric on piano.

References

External links

• BBC Radio 4 programme on "Spiegel im Spiegel"