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Music : Pärt: Tabula Rasa
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0042281776427
Label: ECM New Series
Manufacturer: ECM New Series
MPN: 817764
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: ECM New Series
Release Date: July 01, 1988
Running Time: 55 minutes
Studio: ECM New Series
Disc 1:
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
This package presents two of Arvo Pürt's most familiar works--already indisputable classics--Tabula Rasa and Fratres. For all of their "minimalist" technique, there's a fathomless--call it timeless, if you will--beauty to these scores the deeper you plunge into their hypnotic sound world. The best place to discover them remains ECM's breakthrough release Tabula Rasa. Unlike Gidon Kremer (the superb interpreter of that recording), and despite an epiphany he mentions in the booklet--likening this music to the desert landscape of Utah--Gil Shaham doesn't seem to grasp one of the key components of that beauty: its austerity, its distance, as through a glass. There's an exquisite finish to his tone, to be sure, but Shaham essentially over-romanticises this music, coating it with a lovely but undifferentiated sheen, although he does hint at the vocal character of his lines. Passages of Fratres thus sound curiously tamed, as if we could be listening to such pastoral blandishments as The Lark Ascending or, in Tabula Rasa, to a Vivaldi andante. Despite this disappointment, the disc offers a thoroughly compelling account of the Third Symphony (1971) by its dedicatee, Neeme Järvi. It's fascinating to hear Pärt's points of origin--Soviet music, chant from the Orthodox Church, the fascination with bell sounds--so clearly delineated and transmogrified as in this work. Järvi molds its colourful but sombre scoring into vividly dramatic shapes, hinting at Shostakovich in the chasm-deep bass lines tugging against the piercing treble or--as in the haunting opening solo--at the bleak majesty of a Sibelius landscape. The very success of Pärt's better-known works has tended to obscure the quality of such earlier pieces, but this performance helps widen the perspective to a more inclusive one. --Thomas May
Rating:
- possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever...........
Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa" is an absolutely astonishing piece of music. It is part prayer, a part meditation and a part love letter, burning with passion and sufferring. It is at the same time filled with yearning and longing for a higher state of being and every listening puts my mind in a very unique, spiritual and meditative state. I can't recommend this CD more, for the perfromances on it are all absolutely astounding, especially the live recording of the title track, with its sounds of the audience ... Read More
Rating: - Take the Arvo Part test!!! NOW!!!
I dont even know if there is any point in writing reviews about Arvo Part at all. Even the pieces which you dont like as much as the ones you love, have a perfection to them, and such a compositional purity of thought, that they become equally as irresistable; demanding that you always play every track on the cd.
And yes, the pieces are unbelievably beautiful...
And yes, the performances are magical...
And yes, the recording is perfect.
I would like to see a ... Read More
Rating: - Simle, pure excellency
I have been the fortunate owner of the ECM recording of Tabula Rasa for nine years, and this record is perhaps the most treasured CD of an extensive collection. This was my first Part record, and opened my ears to his music. I may not be the right one to talk about the technicality of the performers. But this is music that will get under your skin with its simpleness, its timeless sound and purity. It did so with me, and almost everyone else I know who have taken the time to listen to it, has come to adore ... Read More
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Pärt: Tabula Rasa
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EAN: 0042281776427
Label: ECM New Series
Manufacturer: ECM New Series
MPN: 817764
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: ECM New Series
Release Date: July 01, 1988
Running Time: 55 minutes
Studio: ECM New Series
Disc 1:
- Fratres
- Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
- Fratres
- Tabula Rasa
- Pärt: Alina
- The Best of Arvo Pärt
- Pärt: Te Deum
- Gorecki - Symphony No.3: Sorrowful Songs
- Pärt - Da Pacem
- see more
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
This package presents two of Arvo Pürt's most familiar works--already indisputable classics--Tabula Rasa and Fratres. For all of their "minimalist" technique, there's a fathomless--call it timeless, if you will--beauty to these scores the deeper you plunge into their hypnotic sound world. The best place to discover them remains ECM's breakthrough release Tabula Rasa. Unlike Gidon Kremer (the superb interpreter of that recording), and despite an epiphany he mentions in the booklet--likening this music to the desert landscape of Utah--Gil Shaham doesn't seem to grasp one of the key components of that beauty: its austerity, its distance, as through a glass. There's an exquisite finish to his tone, to be sure, but Shaham essentially over-romanticises this music, coating it with a lovely but undifferentiated sheen, although he does hint at the vocal character of his lines. Passages of Fratres thus sound curiously tamed, as if we could be listening to such pastoral blandishments as The Lark Ascending or, in Tabula Rasa, to a Vivaldi andante. Despite this disappointment, the disc offers a thoroughly compelling account of the Third Symphony (1971) by its dedicatee, Neeme Järvi. It's fascinating to hear Pärt's points of origin--Soviet music, chant from the Orthodox Church, the fascination with bell sounds--so clearly delineated and transmogrified as in this work. Järvi molds its colourful but sombre scoring into vividly dramatic shapes, hinting at Shostakovich in the chasm-deep bass lines tugging against the piercing treble or--as in the haunting opening solo--at the bleak majesty of a Sibelius landscape. The very success of Pärt's better-known works has tended to obscure the quality of such earlier pieces, but this performance helps widen the perspective to a more inclusive one. --Thomas May
Average Rating:
Rating:
- possibly the most beautiful piece of music ever...........Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa" is an absolutely astonishing piece of music. It is part prayer, a part meditation and a part love letter, burning with passion and sufferring. It is at the same time filled with yearning and longing for a higher state of being and every listening puts my mind in a very unique, spiritual and meditative state. I can't recommend this CD more, for the perfromances on it are all absolutely astounding, especially the live recording of the title track, with its sounds of the audience ... Read More
Rating:
- Take the Arvo Part test!!! NOW!!!I dont even know if there is any point in writing reviews about Arvo Part at all. Even the pieces which you dont like as much as the ones you love, have a perfection to them, and such a compositional purity of thought, that they become equally as irresistable; demanding that you always play every track on the cd.
And yes, the pieces are unbelievably beautiful...
And yes, the performances are magical...
And yes, the recording is perfect.
I would like to see a ... Read More
Rating:
- Simle, pure excellencyI have been the fortunate owner of the ECM recording of Tabula Rasa for nine years, and this record is perhaps the most treasured CD of an extensive collection. This was my first Part record, and opened my ears to his music. I may not be the right one to talk about the technicality of the performers. But this is music that will get under your skin with its simpleness, its timeless sound and purity. It did so with me, and almost everyone else I know who have taken the time to listen to it, has come to adore ... Read More
Adult Contemporary • Blues • Children's Music • Christmas Music • Classical • Country • Dance & Electronic • Easy Listening • Hard Rock & Metal • Hip-Hop & Rap • Indie • Jazz • Miscellaneous • Pop • R&B and Soul • Reggae • Rock • Soundtracks • World & Folk •
