Alina
by Arvo P盲rt
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 October 1999
- Label: ECM New Series
- Country: Estonia
- Length: 51:18
- Community rating: 4.14/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Alina' is a profoundly peaceful, minimalist showcase of Arvo P盲rt's tintinnabuli compositional style. The album features incredibly sparse, melancholic piano and string duet performances that evoke a deep sense of acoustic meditation and soft, spiritual solitude.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, minimalistic, piano, strings, minimal, ambient, silence, spirituality, melodic
Tracklist
- Spiegel im Spiegel (Version for Violin & Piano) - Version for Violin and Piano (10:36)
- F眉r Alina - Extended Version (10:47)
- Spiegel im Spiegel (Version for Cello & Piano) - Version for Cello and Piano (9:12)
- F眉r Alina (Reprise) (10:53)
- Spiegel im Spiegel (Version for Violin & Piano) - Version for Violin and Piano / Reprise (9:48)
Credits
- Arvo P盲rt - primary artist, composed by
- Sascha Kleis - design
- Markus Heiland - engineer [tonmeister]
- Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart - liner notes [english translation]
- Martine Passelaigue - liner notes [french translation]
- Hermann Conen - liner notes [german]
- Betty Freeman - photography by [liner photo]
- Manfred Eicher - producer
- Sergej Bezrodny - piano
- Vladimir Spivakov - violin
- Alexander Malter - piano
- Dietmar Schwalke - violoncello