Arvo pärt piano
- Arvo pärt works
- Arvo pärt sheet music
- Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world for 5 consecutive years.
- •
The central work in Pärt’s instrumental music, the double concerto Tabula rasa has become one of the cult pieces in the music world and has prompted many composers and musicians, as well as concert audiences, to listen to and understand music in a completely new way. This composition also became a turning point in Arvo Pärt’s career, introducing the expressive possibilities of the tintinnabuli style for the first time in a large-scale musical composition.
Violinist Gidon Kremer has described Tabula rasa as a declaration of silence, a manifesto of concentrating on important things. He has also admitted that this piece changed his life. Manfred Eicher, the head of the record label ECM, has recalled the first time he heard Tabula rasa: driving in a car,…
The central work in Pärt’s instrumental music, the double concerto Tabula rasa has become one of the cult pieces in the music world and has prompted many composers and musicians, as well as concert audiences, to listen to and understand music in a completely new way. This composition also became a turning point in Arvo Pä
- •
Arvo Pärt Collection
| Composer | Arvo Pärt |
| Artist | Various artists |
| Format | 9 CD |
| Cat. number | 96389 |
| EAN code | 5028421963891 |
| Release | November 2021 |
Share
Buy online
Download & streams
Other buying options
Buy in Australia
- Fish Fine Music
Level 2, Shop 40-42
Queen Victoria Building
Sydney CBD
+61 (0)2 9264 6458
www.fishfinemusic.com.au - Thomas Music
31 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
+61 (0)3 9650 9111
www.thomasmusic.net.au - Readings: Carlton
309 Lygon St
Carlton VIC 3053
+61(0)3 9347 6633 - Readings: Hawthorn
701 Glenferrie Rd
Hawthorn VIC 3122
+61 (0)3 9819 1917 - Readings: St Kilda
112 Acland St
St Kilda VIC 3182
+61 (0)3 9525 3852 - Readings: Malvern
185 Glenferrie Rd
Malvern VIC 3144
+61 (0)3 9509 1952 - Readings: State Library of Victoria
Cnr La Trobe & Swanston Str
Melbourne VIC
+61 (0)3 8664 7540 - Readings: Online
www.readings.com.au
About this release
The most comprehensive collection ever issued of Arvo Pärt’s music, surveying the full range of an output from one of t
- •
Tabula rasa
Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
THE STORY
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt took a vow of public silence from 1968 to 1976, seeking “artistic reorientation.” He emerged from this period with a new compositional style and some of his best-known works, including 1977’s Tabula rasa, meaning “clean slate.”
“Before one says something, perhaps it is better to say nothing,” Pärt proposed. “Ideally, a silent pause is something sacred … If someone approaches silence with love, then this might give birth to music.”
For him, it gave birth to a style that he called “tintinnabulation,” which means that he limited the notes he used in a given work almost exclusively to the pitches of a single scale and its triad, creating a bell-like effect. Perhaps it should not be surprising that the emerging style of a composer who had been silent for nearly a decade would be minimalistic, but the soloists who performed the premiere were taken aback. &ldquo
Copyright ©popfray.pages.dev 2025