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Track Listings
| 1. Fratres |
| 2. Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten |
| 3. Fratres |
| 4. Tabula Rasa |
On this CD:
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Fratres
Composed by Arvo Pärt
with Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett
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Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
Composed by Arvo Pärt
Performed by Stuttgart State Orchestra
Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
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Fratres
Composed by Arvo Pärt
Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Cellists
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Tabula rasa
Composed by Arvo Pärt
Performed by Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
with Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke
Conducted by Saulius Sondeckis
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This package presents two of Arvo Pürt's most familiar works--already indisputable classics--Tabula Rasa and Fratres. For all of their "minimalist" technique, there's a fathomless--call it timeless, if you will--beauty to these scores the deeper you plunge into their hypnotic sound world. The best place to discover them remains ECM's breakthrough release Tabula Rasa. Unlike Gidon Kremer (the superb interpreter of that recording), and despite an epiphany he mentions in the booklet--likening this music to the desert landscape of Utah--Gil Shaham doesn't seem to grasp one of the key components of that beauty: its austerity, its distance, as through a glass. There's an exquisite finish to his tone, to be sure, but Shaham essentially over-romanticises this music, coating it with a lovely but undifferentiated sheen, although he does hint at the vocal character of his lines. Passages of Fratres thus sound curiously tamed, as if we could be listening to such pastoral blandishments as The Lark Ascending or, in Tabula Rasa, to a Vivaldi andante. Despite this disappointment, the disc offers a thoroughly compelling account of the Third Symphony (1971) by its dedicatee, Neeme Järvi. It's fascinating to hear Pärt's points of origin--Soviet music, chant from the Orthodox Church, the fascination with bell sounds--so clearly delineated and transmogrified as in this work. Järvi molds its colourful but sombre scoring into vividly dramatic shapes, hinting at Shostakovich in the chasm-deep bass lines tugging against the piercing treble or--as in the haunting opening solo--at the bleak majesty of a Sibelius landscape. The very success of Pärt's better-known works has tended to obscure the quality of such earlier pieces, but this performance helps widen the perspective to a more inclusive one. --Thomas May
Album Description
Recorded 1977, 1983 and 1984
Personnel:
Gidon Kremer - (violin), Keith Jarrett - (piano), Dennis Russell Davies
conductor Staatsorchester Stuttgart, The 12 Cellists of the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra, Tatjana Grindenko - (violin), Alfred Schnittke -
(prepared piano),
Saulius Sondeckis conductor of Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
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