Tabula Rasa
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Brand: JARRETT,KEITHComposer: Arvo P?rt
Orchestra: Dennis Russell Davies
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Fratres
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
- Fratres
- Tabula Rasa
Music reviews of Tabula Rasa
Music Review: Arvo Part, an esoteric christianity priest for the 21st centuary
Rating: 5 Stars
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.
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No Description Available.Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 16-NOV-1999
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 May
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 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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