Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
by Keith Jarrett / Gidon Kremer; Dennis Russell Davies / Staatsorchester Stuttgart; The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Saulius Sondeckis / Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / Alfred Schnittke
Year: 1984
Release date: 1984-09-01
Overall rank: 1,509th
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| ! | 11/11/2025 05:23 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,354 | 70/100 |
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| ! | 04/15/2025 13:00 |  Tamthebam | 23,222 | 69/100 |
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VictorVale 03/18/2021 11:26 | #267443
Sublime!
JoaoMoreira 10/06/2019 23:24 | #243468
Mesmerizing strings' work!
Peaceful and tragic.
Fischman 01/20/2019 14:49 | #230099
Minimalism at it's very best. This is thoroughly modern music that doesn't complely forsake its past. A remarkable achievement.
sssvnnn 01/20/2019 11:10 | #230080
pure beauy.
"Fratres" and "Tabula rasa" are the MVP's here, and the latter is simply the most beautiful classical piece ever composed. The title piece is an emotionally raw outpouring of catharsis and stuns with its deceptively simple composition style. A must-hear for anyone interested in classical music, its quality and place in the musical canon are indisputable.
colonelchibbers 05/20/2015 04:51 | #141958 | TOP COMMENT
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Haunting minimalism. There are just a few minimalist pieces that stick out above the rest and this is the best of them.
Album has this sound of waiting for bad news in Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. It is alright though as it is music and make believe.
SingingPeasant96 08/12/2013 04:16 | #83760 | TOP COMMENT
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This is just too sublime and awesome, so I can't even believe if this really exists
“I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me. I work with very few elements - with one voice, two voices. I build with primitive materials - with the triad, with one specific tonality. The three notes of a triad are like bells and that is why I call it tintinnabulation”- Arvo Pärt
Judging by the number of charts Tabula Rasa appears on here, one might think it's the greatest piece of classical music ever made. I can assure you it's not, not by a long shot, though it is quite nice.
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