TABULA RASA II SILENTIUM
Created on 10/02/2022Latest update on 21/11/2023
Artist: Alfred Schnittke
Author: Arvo Pärt
Label: ECM
Year: 1977
On prepared piano and with the Chamber Orchestra of Tallinn. Title track of Pärt's first album for ECM, released in '84. This piece made Pärt's reputation amongst dying HIV-patients, calling this the Angel's Music during the AIDS epidemic.
Covers:
- 1993:
Robert Aldwinckle & Bournemouth Sinfonietta [on harpsichord and for EMI]
- 2021:
Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orch. [the four chords on harpsichord played by Sam Shepherd throughout eight of the nine parts of Promises on MOJO's eponymous Record of the Year 2021; no credits, not even a tip of the hat]
