Tabula Rasa
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Composer: Arvo PartConductor: Dennis Russell Davies
Conductor: Saulius Sondeckis
Performer: 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra: Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Performer: Keith Jarrett
Performer: Gidon Kremer
Performer: Tatjana Grindenko
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Fratres
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
- Fratres
- Tabula Rasa
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Free Music Review: A wonderful and intriguing labryinth
Hit: 5 Stars
I found it impossible not to react on a variety of emotional levels to Part's music, especially Tabula Rasa. It almost demands feeling. It is also music whose complexities draw one continually to explore it. The more you listen, the more there is to find.
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This seminal disc now almost seems like the manifesto for a whole new strain of minimalism that has found an enormously receptive audience. It represented a breakthrough for Estonian composer Arvo P?rt, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk G?recki--pursues an austerely beautiful simplicity that suggests spiritual illumination. Fratres, given here in two versions, one for piano and violin and the other for 12 cellos, repeatedly intones a sequence resembling chant to convey a sensibility that seems at once archaic and beyond time. Violinist Gidon Kremer, for whom P?rt wrote the exquisitely contemplative and hypnotic title work, grasps the music's koan-like idiom, allowing an inner fullness to resonate through the most fragile, ethereal wisps of tone against the mysterious clangings of prepared piano. The tolling of the tubular bells in Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten is an emotionally charged lament, based on a simple minor descending scale, that introduces P?rt's fascination with what he calls "tintinnabulation": the literal and metaphorical sound of ringing bells. This recording is also famous for the acoustically warm presence produced by ECM's Manfred Eicher, which magnificently captures the mystical simplicity of P?rt's sound world. --Thomas MayThis seminal disc now almost seems like the manifesto for a whole new strain of minimalism that has found an enormously receptive audience. It represented a breakthrough for Estonian composer Arvo P?rt, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk G?recki--pursues an austerely beautiful simplicity that suggests spiritual illumination. Fratres, given here in two versions, one for piano and violin and the other for 12 cellos, repeatedly intones a sequence resembling chant to convey a sensibility that seems at once archaic and beyond time. Violinist Gidon Kremer, for whom P?rt wrote the exquisitely contemplative and hypnotic title work, grasps the music's koan-like idiom, allowing an inner fullness to resonate through the most fragile, ethereal wisps of tone against the mysterious clangings of prepared piano. The tolling of the tubular bells in Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Brittenis an emotionally charged lament, based on a simple minor descending scale, that introduces P?rt's fascination with what he calls "tintinnabulation": the literal and metaphorical sound of ringing bells. This recording is also famous for the acoustically warm presence produced by ECM's Manfred Eicher, which magnificently captures the mystical simplicity of P?rt's sound world. --Thomas May
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