In 1984, ECM brought a new sound to the music world with the release of Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa, the label's first album in its New Series. The record also marked the intersection of some of the longest-standing and most significant musical collaborators in the label's history: Arvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer, and Keith Jarrett.

“The album that brought Pärt's name to the West and to the world (...). Back in 1984, Tabula rasa helped to re-educate our ears and open the doors of our musical sensibility to spatial realms that were otherwise closed to us. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the great recordings of the last century.”
– Rob Cowan, Gramophone (2023)

Exclusive special book edition (with accompanying CD), produced by ECM in collaboration with the composer's publisher, Universal Edition. Scores of all four compositions on the album. Previously unpublished facsimile of Arvo Pärt's autographs of “Tabula rasa” and “Cantus.” Introductory essay by Paul Griffiths. Exclusive photos from the ECM archive. All texts in English and German.

Tracklisting:
Pärt:
1. Fratres
2. Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
3. Fratres (Version for 12 Cellos)

Tabula Rasa - Live in Bonn, 1977:
4. I. Ludus. Con moto 
5. II. Silentium. Senza moto