Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
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Composer: Arvo PartEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-08-16
Music Label: ECM Records
Soundtracks:
- Fratres
- Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
- Fratres
- 1. Ludus [Live]
- 2. Silentium [Live]
Music reviews of Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
Music Review: Absoultely indispensable
Rating: 5 Stars
Part is not just one of the giants of contemporary classical music; he is also a touchstone for much modern music, period. It's difficult to imagine a group like, say, Sigur Ros or much ambient or so-called "indie-classical" music without Part's compositional example. This record served as much of the world's introduction to Part and so is historically as well as artistically indispensable.
In his liner notes to this recording, Wolfgang Sander quotes Part relating a conversation he had with a Russian Orthodox monk; Part asked the monk what an artist can do to become better--write more prayers, for instance?. The monk told him that he could do nothing: "All the prayers have already been written. You don't need to write any more. Everything has been prepared. Now you have to prepare yourself."
It's tempting to read the title of this recording as Part's signal that he is ready: He no longer writes out of a tradition or even in response to one. He is ready simply to receive. And indeed, the music here is such that it has that just-revealed quality. Here's Sander again, writing about the extraordinary title piece: "What kind of music is this? Whoever wrote it must have left himself behind at one point to dig the piano notes out of the earth and gather the artificial harmonics of the violins from heaven. The tonality of this music has no mechanical purpose. It is there to transport us toward something that has never been heard before."
To say any more about this record threatens to veer into what will sound like hyperbole and drive off the uncertain among you. So, I'll just conclude by saying: You not only want this album and just don't know it yet. You _need_ this album. It's that essential.
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