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Arvo Pärt

Tabula Rasa (LP)

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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
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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
A1Fratres11:26
A2Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten5:00
A3Fratres11:51
BTabula Rasa26:08
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
All About Jazz

“The music was cathartic, a music of slowly beating wings”

★★★★★
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AllMusic

“...the radical simplicity he achieved was the result of religious contemplation that was at least as, if not more, formative than his quest for a new musical aesthetic.”

★★★★★
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Gramophone

“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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