Tabula Rasa
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Brand: JARRETT,KEITHComposer: Arvo Pärt
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: just one more thing...
Rating: 5 Stars
There would seem to be little I could add to the many appreciations of this beautiful music, many by folks far more knowledgable than me. I would venture three observations. First, this music, though it can be listened to casually, really rewards or perhaps demands committment. Second, some appreciation of the spiritual/religious dimension of this music seems significant as it is so significant to the composer. Third, this music really rewards high fidelity sound by top end equipment. It is certainly OK on consumer level gear but the purity and simplicity of the music is most rewarding when the sound is as close to being at the performance as possible.
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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 Pärt, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk Górecki--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 Pärt 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 Pärt'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 Pärt'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 Pärt, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk Górecki--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 Pärt 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 Pärt'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 Pärt's sound world. --Thomas May
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