Album of the day (#4424): Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa

[albummaster]

Today's album of the day

Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa by Keith Jarrett / Gidon Kremer; Dennis Russell Davies / Staatsorchester Stuttgart; The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Saulius Sondeckis / Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra / Alfred Schnittke (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1984.
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Overall rank: 1,234
Average rating: 81/100 (from 161 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Fratres
2. Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
3. Fratres
4. Tabula Rasa

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.

[MadhattanJack]

I mentioned this back in September in the thread about which site's album chart was better (BEA's or RYM's), because it's one of those albums that suddenly went viral one day a few years ago and now has an unusually high rating/ranking on both sites, at least for a neo-classical album.

Since then, the BEA overall ranking has actually improved somewhat significantly (from 1,319 to 1,234), whereas the RYM ratings-based overall ranking has gotten a bit worse (from 303 to 333) — the opposite of what I would have expected, though of course I have no idea as what could be driving trends in the Arvo Part ranking subculture. It might have something to do with the fact that Side 2 is sometimes used to console people with late-stage terminal illnesses, but even that's just a theory.

If I had to guess though, I'd say it's because people just really like that incredibly sexy album cover.

[CharlieBarley]

I listened to this one time and thought it was awesome
Needs a revisit