Georgijs Osokins, a proud advocate of the rarely celebrated musical heritage of the Baltic states, presents an album of works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, who turns 90 this year. For Arvo features Pärt’s complete solo piano works as well as Osokins’s own transcriptions of several other famous pieces, including Fratres. This album marks Latvian-born pianist’s first solo recording on Deutsche Grammophon. In preparing for the recording, Osokins was able to learn both from his mentor Gidon Kremer, a renowned Pärt specialist, and from the composer himself and those close to him. “In Georgijs,” says Kremer, “I see not just a remarkable pianist, but a true kindred spirit, someone deeply attuned to the spiritual core of Arvo’s music, and capable of carrying that voice forward for generations to come.”