![]() ![]() Thirteen records have followed on ECM alone, with albums appearing on other labels as well. The album, which included Tabula Rasa for two solo violins and chamber orchestra, opened the door to the West for Part's music. It took Eicher, the founder of ECM Records, six months to track down Pärt and a few more years before he released Pärt's first ECM album in 1984. "Yes, I wanted to be closer to this music." "It was music you discover that makes you speechless, breathless and thoughtful," Eicher recalls. Pärt's musical combination of awe and silence caused German record producer Manfred Eicher to pull off the autobahn when he heard Tabula Rasa on the radio. The silence of our soul, which isn't even affected by external distractions, is actually more crucial but more difficult to achieve." Silence can be both that which is outside of us and that which is inside a person. And when we speak about silence, we must keep in mind that it has two different wings, so to speak. "On the other hand, silence must be approached with a feeling of awe. "On the one hand, silence is like fertile soil, which, as it were, awaits our creative act, our seed," Pärt says. Another ingredient in the recipe is silence. He called his newfound style "tintinnabuli," a word referring to little tinkling bells. Pärt realized the beautiful simplicity of the triad and ran with it. 25?' Now that sound is called a triad in music, but it's actually the building block of all music in the Western world." "Over the public address system one hears the sound 'doo, doo doo' " - Layton sings three descending tones - "'Could so-and-so please go to till No. ![]() Silence is like fertile soil, which, as it were, awaits our creative act, our seed. Part of Pärt's breakthrough, Layton says, came from hearing just three notes in a supermarket. Layton says after the complicated music that dominated the mid-20th century, Pärt's new style, with nods to Gregorian chant and Renaissance music, wiped the slate clean. Slow, pure, simple, yet powerfully focused is how conductor Stephen Layton describes the music: "If you had to give an aesthetic for his compositional output, less is more is certainly it," Layton says.Ī choral specialist, Layton has recorded two albums of Pärt's vocal works (a third is scheduled for this fall). He went nearly silent for eight years, and when he returned, it was with something completely different. "It's very interesting," he responded, with a slight twinkle in his eye.Įarly on, Pärt wrote thorny, atonal music in the style of the day. I told him that I strapped a transistor radio to my bicycle when I was a kid. As a kid in Soviet-era Estonia, he practiced on a battered old piano and rode his bike around the town listening to Finnish radio broadcasts. 4 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen.Pärt has gravitas to burn. Both closely follow the acclaimed release on ECM New Series of the world premiere recording of Pärt's Symphony No. This CD re-issue is quite separate from the Tabula rasa special limited edition book/CD version also released in September 2010. At the composer's request the work Tabula rasa has now been separated into two tracks (Ludus and Silentium) on this revised CD. Tabula rasa launched the New Series in 1984, and the interpretations of Pärt's unique compositions by Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Dennis Russell Davies and Alfred Schnittke and other artists changed the landscape of contemporary music. $ Īrvo Pärt's epochal, best-selling recording of Tabula rasa on ECM New Series has been reissued with new packaging and track listing. ![]()
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