Description
2024 vinyl reissue in facsimile gatefold edition, includes original liner notes by Wolfgang Sandner in enclosed booklet.
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.
Featured Artists:
- Gidon Kremer, Violin
- Keith Jarrett, Piano
- Tatjana Grindenko, Violin
- Staatsorchester Stuttgart Orchestra
- Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
- The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alfred Schnittke, Prepared Piano
- Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
- Saulius Sondeckis, Conductor
"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, Gramophone (2023)
Tracklisting:
| 1. Fratres (for violin and piano) |
| 2. Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten |
| 3. Fratres (for 12 celli) |
| 4. Tabula rasa: I. Ludus |
| 5. Tabula rasa: II. Silentium |
