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Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa (LP)
LabelECM RecordsGenreContemporary Composition
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New vinyl reissue in facsimile gatefold edition, includes original liner notes by Wolfgang Sandner in enclosed booklet.
Big tip! In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s Tabula rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collaborators in the label’s history: Arvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer and Keith Jarrett.
„The album that brought Pärt’s name to the West, and to the world (…). Back in 1984 Tabula rasa helped re-educate our ears and throw open the doors of our musical sensibilities to spatial domains that had otherwise been closed to us. This is without any shadow of a doubt one of the great recordings of the last century.“ – Rob Cowan
Details
Cat. number: ECM 1275, 476 3878
Year: 2024
Release notes
Issued with 4-page booklet attached inside the gatefold sleeve. Recording: Fratres October 1983, Basel Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten January 1984, Stuttgart Fratres (for 12 celli) February 1984, Berlin Tabula Rasa November 1977, Bonn
Tracklist
| A1 | Fratres | 11:26 | |
| A2 | Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten | 5:00 | |
| A3 | Fratres | 11:51 | |
| B | Tabula Rasa | 26:08 |
Credits
- Barbara Wojirsch
- Cover [Cover Design]
- Anne Cattaneo
- Liner Notes [English Translation]
- Wolfgang Sandner
- Liner Notes [© 1984]
- Juri Gurewichs
- Photography By
- Kalju Suur
- Photography By
- Manfred Eicher
- Producer
- Dieter Frobeen
- Recorded By, Engineer
- Eberhard Sengpiel
- Recorded By, Engineer
- Heinz Wildhagen
- Recorded By, Engineer
- Peter Lenger
- Recorded By, Engineer
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All Music Guide
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“The novelty of Pärt’s austerely meditative style has since become an essential component of our musical lives in the 21st century”
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