Tabula rasa

by Arvo P盲rt

Tabula rasa cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: Estonia
  • Length: 54:44
  • Community rating: 4.48/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Introducing Arvo P盲rt's revolutionary 'tintinnabuli' compositional style to a global audience, 'Tabula rasa' is a staggering achievement of holy minimalism. The album features incredibly sparse, slow-moving chamber music arrangements centered around intertwining violins and prepared piano. It constructs a profoundly spiritual, melancholic, and deeply mysterious acoustic atmosphere that redefined late-20th-century classical music.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, minimalistic, acoustic, strings, minimal, orchestral, spirituality

Tracklist

  1. Fratres
  2. Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
  3. Fratres (for 12 cellos)
  4. Tabula rasa: I. Ludus
  5. Tabula rasa: II. Silentium

Credits

  • Arvo P盲rt - primary artist
  • Barbara Wojirsch - cover [cover design]
  • Anne Cattaneo - liner notes [english translation]
  • Wolfgang Sandner - liner notes [漏 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 Laenger - recorded by, engineer
  • Keith Jarrett - piano
  • Gidon Kremer - violin
  • Dennis Russell Davies - conductor
  • Staatsorchester Stuttgart - orchestra
  • Die 12 Cellisten Der Berliner Philharmoniker - performer
  • Saulius Sondeckis - conductor
  • Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra - orchestra
  • Alfred Schnittke - piano [prepared], Piano [Prepared Piano]
  • Westdeutscher Rundfunk - recorded by [live recording by]
  • Tatiana Grindenko - violin

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