A detailed analysis and discussion of music composed between 1982 and 1997, including several works that are operatic-style scena, and notable work on religious texts including Stabat Mater, Te Deum, Magnificat and Miserere. Collaborations with the Hilliard Ensemble, ECM Records and their director Manfred Eicher. Theological and musical discussion of the use of texts, description of the expansion of tintinnabulation, along with details of Pärt’s score revisions. An in-depth analysis and description of Kanon Pokajanen, the landmark work of this period. Kanon represents a culmination of advanced techniques used to promote a strongly Orthodox Christian Theology and is contextualized and evaluated.