
Ecm Records - Ecm Records
Dennis Russell Davies
Release date: 1999-11-16
Audio CD
Chamber, Classical, Classical Composers, Concerto, Concerto for Two String Instruments, Jazz Music, Multiple String Instruments without Keyboard, Music For String Orchestra, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Violin with Keyboard
1. Fratres
2. Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
3. Fratres
4. Tabula Rasa




I first heard one of the songs playing in a Starbucks and had to ask them what it was... I couldn't hear it very well, but I knew I needed to hear more. After I got home and listened to the previews on Amazon, I was hooked.
There is so much depth and sweetness to this music. It has literally brought me to tears. If you're looking for an album of chamber music that truely goes beyond the normal lulling sound and into the realm of true artistic expression, this is one to own. It is one of the prizes of my collection.
I'm not completely dug on classical and contemporanean music, ECM stuff included. Lygeti, Xenakis they make me sense, all along american minimalists like Reich or Cage. Electro-acustic is more ear-friendly for me (Ferrari, Parmegiani) but... All this speech just to say that thsi is one ECM record I own - the 1977's Tabula Rasa. The great Gidon Kramer (check out "Silence" from Nonesuch who has another version of tabula rasa) is here with all his magic, even the world-piano-star K. Jarrett plays piano, and everything makes sense. The music is so cold and complex, ethernal yet listenable for the common of mortals. Give a try, i did and i'm inloved with.