Arvo Pärt - "My Road has its Peaks and Valleys" for Organ

Performed by Charles Burks in April, 2003 at Dwight Chapel on the campus of Yale University. 1971 Rudolf van Beckerath pipe organ; 3 manuals, 54 ranks.
The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) has contributed a significant number of works for organ in the past sixty years. His compositional style has been called "New Simplicity", reminiscent in ways to the 20th century minimalist movement. Many of his Works include spiritual or religious elements that reflect Pärt's Christian faith
"Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäler" was composed in 1989 as an organ work. In 1994 Arvo Pärt created a version for 14 strings and percussion. The title of the work was inspired by a short poem by the writer Edmond Jabès, who was born in Cairo and emigrated to France in 1957. It comes from his main work, Livre des Questions, from 1963:
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
My way has had long hours, shocks and pain. / My road has its peaks and valleys, / its sand and sky. / My way. Yours.
"The image of life's portentous sea-troughs seems to have found an echo in the work's compositional fabric with its constant, dynamically differentiated upward and downward motion. We can hear it, for example, in the three distinctly structured forms of motion using the same tonal material, each assigned to a different set of instruments." - Wolfgang Sandner