Pärt: Symphony No.3/Tabula Rasa/Fratres - Arvo Pärt
Publisher: DG
Released on 09 August 1999
List Price: £15.99
Its a shame that, his ongoing series of choral works having made him famous, Arvo Pärt shows no sign of adding to the variable but always fascinating line of orchestral works in which he "found himself" as a composer. There's nothing here from the experimental years of the 1960s, and in the Third Symphony (1971), the archaic yet timeless world of Pärt as we know it today is largely in place. Only the obvious rhetoric--massive outbursts, thunderous pauses etc, readily emphasised by Neeme Järvi's expansive and hard-hitting account--stands in the way, and by the time of Tabula Rasa... Read More
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