Part Tabula Rasa Ltd Book Edition
Kremer Gidon Jarrett Keith
Part Tabula Rasa Ltd Book Edition
Kremer Gidon Jarrett Keith
Catalogue # ECM1275DELUXE
A legend-a breathtaking icon of sound and spirit-newly packaged with a book including previously unpublished manuscript material. A celebration for Part’s 75th! Very Limited Edition.
Pärt:
Tabula Rasa
Gidon Kremer (violin), Tatjana Grindenko (violin) & Alfred Schnittke (prepared piano)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulus Sondeckis
Fratres for Violin & Piano
Gidon Kremer (violin) & Keith Jarrett (piano)
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Dennis Russell Davies
Fratres for 12 Cellos
The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
This is a special edition of “Tabula Rasa”, the epochal album first issued in 1984 when the composer and ECM producer Manfred Eicher had just begun their collaboration. The new edition, prepared in association with publisher Universal Edition includes a 200 page hardback book with scores and facsimiles of Pärt’s previously unpublished handwritten manuscripts, which make for fascinating study. The book also contains writings and photos from the original release and a new introduction by Paul Griffiths. The disc itself, of course, features an astonishing cast playing compositions which are meanwhile amongst the best-loved in Pärt’s oeuvre.
Review
Richard Mohr, Guest Reviewer
Over the last couple of decades, the solitary Estonian mystic composer Arvo Part has laboured away, quietly producing some of the most starkly beautiful music in modern - well, to be honest - any times. By way of a seventy-fifth birthday celebration, his record label and music publisher have collaborated on this gorgeous edition of Tabula Raasa, the disc that made his name in 1984. All the works are widely loved these days: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Tabula Rasa and Fratres, the latter in versions for piano and violin with Gidon Kremer and Keith Jarrett, and for 12 cellists. The disc comes in a 208-page, full-size hardback book, with violin and piano scores, and facsimiles of Part’s original manuscripts, eessages, photos and discography. Whether you read music or not, this is truly a desirable object.
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