Arvo Pärt says of this work: "In the 1960s I became so fascinated by that central idea of Christianity 'Love your enemies' that it gave birth to my composition "Credo". The work comprises two musically opposing, colliding worlds: one serial and aleatoric, the other an arrangement of a prelude by Bach. What I wanted to show through the work's unfolding - inexorable like a chain reaction - is how the postulate 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth', harmless as it may seem in its initial stage, ...