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Pärt: Tabula Rasa |  | Creators: Arvo Pärt, Dennis Russell Davies, Saulius Sondeckis, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Cellists, Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke
Label: ECM New Series
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4507
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 817764
UPC: 042281776427
EAN: 0042281776427
ASIN: B0000262K7
Release Date: July 1, 1988
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| • | Fratres | | • | Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten | | • | Fratres | | • | Tabula Rasa |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This package presents two of Arvo Pürt's most familiar works--already indisputable classics--Tabula Rasa and Fratres. For all of their "minimalist" technique, there's a fathomless--call it timeless, if you will--beauty to these scores the deeper you plunge into their hypnotic sound world. The best place to discover them remains ECM's breakthrough release Tabula Rasa. Unlike Gidon Kremer (the superb interpreter of that recording), and despite an epiphany he mentions in the booklet--likening this music to the desert landscape of Utah--Gil Shaham doesn't seem to grasp one of the key components of that beauty: its austerity, its distance, as through a glass. There's an exquisite finish to his tone, to be sure, but Shaham essentially over-romanticises this music, coating it with a lovely but undifferentiated sheen, although he does hint at the vocal character of his lines. Passages of Fratres thus sound curiously tamed, as if we could be listening to such pastoral blandishments as The Lark Ascending or, in Tabula Rasa, to a Vivaldi andante. Despite this disappointment, the disc offers a thoroughly compelling account of the Third Symphony (1971) by its dedicatee, Neeme Järvi. It's fascinating to hear Pärt's points of origin--Soviet music, chant from the Orthodox Church, the fascination with bell sounds--so clearly delineated and transmogrified as in this work. Järvi molds its colourful but sombre scoring into vividly dramatic shapes, hinting at Shostakovich in the chasm-deep bass lines tugging against the piercing treble or--as in the haunting opening solo--at the bleak majesty of a Sibelius landscape. The very success of Pärt's better-known works has tended to obscure the quality of such earlier pieces, but this performance helps widen the perspective to a more inclusive one. --Thomas May
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Arvo Part, an esoteric christianity priest for the 21st centuary November 7, 2009
Deven Gadula (san francisco, ca, united states)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of modern classical field. It is my favorite album by Arvo Part. Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten could be to me the most amazing 5 minutes of any and all music. This album is timeless and if you have not heard it yet, you really should. The power of Arvo Part's minimalism is such that as much as you hear the music with your ears playing here in the outer space your inner space grows alive and that is where the real experience takes place. As organized religion is dying in front of our eyes the spirituality of events of a magnitude of this album here fills that emptying space. Arvo Part does not believe in where his spirit comes from, he knows it. Listen to his works exclusively for the next few weeks or months and his conviction may come upon you.
The music of this album is brought to us by the shining stars of the music world. First variation of Fratres is played by Gidon Kremer on violin and Keith Jarrett on piano. Their timing and silence, softness and urgency are truly superb. This movement calms you down and prepares for Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten whose music Arvo Part loved and whom he was planning on meeting but did not make it in time. Cantus is played by the Stuttgart Town Orchestra. Following Cantus is another variation of Fratres played by 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. I love having these two versions of the same theme here. That allows me to get deeper into this composition and to get more familiar with its texture. The title piece, Tabula Rasa is played by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra with Gidon Kremer and Tatjana Grindenko on violins and, shockingly enough, with Alfred Schnittke on the prepared piano. Alfred Schnittke happens to be one of the most talented modern classical composers himself. If you are not familiar with his music, I would strongly recommend starting with Concerto Grosso No 1, with these 2 violinists.
Possibly the greatest music ever composed October 24, 2009
A. Part (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You cannot describe how truly beautiful Arvo Part's music is in words. All I can say is that Cantus and Silentium (the second part of Tabula Rasa), are the most beautiful, moving and incredible pieces of music ever! Forget the complexities of composers like Shoenberg, Xenakis or Penderecki, Arvo manages to say all he needs to musically with sparse, simple techniques, that are truly profound. This and the album Te Deum are his finest works I believe. Buy them both! Infact, buy all of his music post 1976!!
Mesmerising December 20, 2008
Jon Chambers (Birmingham, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Spiritual, contemplative, meditative ... these are some of the descriptions usually associated with Arvo Pärt, the 'holy minimalist' or 'tintinnabulist' from Estonia. But as with the soubriquets, the usual descriptions of his music can be misleading. Tabula Rasa begins with a shriek which is rather more disquieting than meditative, or spiritual, or anything else. What follows, however, is engrossing. There are silences, in a work as fragmented as Bruckner, and the intimation of eastern spirituality in its percussive elements - so at least the tintinnabulist term applies here. This 'bell-like' sound is suggested elsewhere, too. Restricted to notes of the triad and using harmonics, violins mimic the campanologist's art.
Tabula Rasa is the fourth, and final, track on this recording. The other main two are versions of Fratres - one for violin and piano, the other for 12 cellos, this latter achieving astonishingly diverse and captivating sounds.
In some ways, Pärt is about as far removed from the origins of western music as it's possible to get. In his fixation with the triad, however, he relates, technically, to the essence of the European tradition. In its searching qualities, which some have divined as spiritual, his work provides links with an even remoter past.
Like other ECM recordings of Pärt, pricey but definitive.
possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever........... August 20, 2002
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa" is an absolutely astonishing piece of music. It is part prayer, a part meditation and a part love letter, burning with passion and sufferring. It is at the same time filled with yearning and longing for a higher state of being and every listening puts my mind in a very unique, spiritual and meditative state. I can't recommend this CD more, for the perfromances on it are all absolutely astounding, especially the live recording of the title track, with its sounds of the audience and the resonances from the hall where it was recorded. Its like a piece of music made in heaven and completely transcends our normal mundane experiences........
Take the Arvo Part test!!! NOW!!! February 19, 2002
reallylongpasta@aol.com (Essex, England)
45 out of 49 found this review helpful
I dont even know if there is any point in writing reviews about Arvo Part at all. Even the pieces which you dont like as much as the ones you love, have a perfection to them, and such a compositional purity of thought, that they become equally as irresistable; demanding that you always play every track on the cd. And yes, the pieces are unbelievably beautiful... And yes, the performances are magical... And yes, the recording is perfect. I would like to see a review from someone who doesn't fall in love with this music for a change. Does anyone ever hate it? Or even think that it is just alright? Not saying that i would like there to be of course... but so far his music is proving to be truely perfect for all human brains. There are six people in my family... My brother is a DJ and blasts nothing but garage music from his room. UNTIL NOW!!! I had to make a recording of this CD so he can CHILL after work with his girlfriend. Yesterday he asked me to make a tape of more music i think he might like. This is also the only CD that my parents allow me to play in their office. My sister who likes pubs,clubbing and ***... has just ordered herself a copy for uni. My other brother has resisted the temtation so far, but when its on and he's in the room i can see him itch. My dog is indifferent. I think.
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