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.
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)
Features
• ECM New Series
• Vinyl LP
• Facsimile Gatefold Edition
• Booklet with Original Liner Notes by Wolfgang Sandner
• Made in Germany
Musicians
Gidon Kremer violin
Keith Jarrett piano
Tatjana Grindenko violin
Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Dennis Russell Davies conductor
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfred Schnittke prepared piano
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Saulius Sondeckis conductor
Selections
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
SIDE 1:
1. Fratres
2. Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
3. Fratres
SIDE 2:
1. Tabula Rasa