ECM Information is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its New Sequence imprint with a reissue of its inaugural launch, Arvo Pärt’s influential Tabula Rasa. Manfred Eicher, the founding father of ECM, was impressed to launch the imprint in 1984 after listening to Tabula Rasa whereas driving. Tabula Rasa launched the Estonian composer to a worldwide viewers and is taken into account one of many biggest recordings of the twentieth century. Out September 13, the gatefold vinyl reissue contains authentic liner notes in an enclosed booklet.
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Tabula Rasa contains two variations of the piece “Fratres,” the primary carried out by Keith Jarrett on piano and Gidon Kremer on violin whereas the second options the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “Frantes” (translating to “Brothers” in Latin) was composed in 1977 and has turn out to be certainly one of Pärt’s hottest items. The piece showcases the fundamental rules of Pärt’s tintinnabuli type, a composition system that reduces musical parameters to the fundamental, primordial parts of sound.
“Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten” is performed by Dennis Russel Davies and carried out by Saatsorchester Stuttgart. The piece was named in tribute to the late English composer and conductor after Pärt discovered of his dying on December 5, 1976. “I had just discovered Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music–I had had the impression of the same kind of purity in the ballads of Guillaume de Machaut,” Pärt later stated. “And besides, for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally–and now it would not come to that.”
A double concerto for 2 violins, string orchestra, and ready piano, “Tabula Rasa” is performed by Saulius Sondeckis and carried out by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. The featured violin soloists are the long run stars Gideon Kremer and Tatjana Grindenko whereas Pärt’s shut good friend Alfred Schnittke performed the ready piano.
A 2002 piece by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross explores the origins and impression of Tabula Rasa. “He has put his finger on something that is almost impossible to put into words—something to do with the power of music to obliterate the rigidities of space and time,” writes Ross. “One after the other, his chords silence the noise of the self, binding the mind to an eternal present.”
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