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Prt: Tabula Rasa
ECM Records (USA)
This seminal disc now almost seems like the manifesto for a whole new strain of minimalism that has found an enormously receptive audience. It represented a breakthrough for Estonian composer Arvo Part, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk Gorecki--pursues an austerely beautiful simplicity that suggests spiritual illumination. --Thomas May |