Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel

Featuring the very best new music and a handful of the old, this hand-picked collection of classics is the perfect gift for the modern man – in all his variation and complexity. New school masters such as Einaudi, Glass, Michael Nyman and Arvo Pärt, plus old school favourites by Debussy, Bach and Schubert.

Classically trained multi-instrumentalist Sacha Puttnam joins electronica artist Chris Coco for this update of the classical-music canon. REMASTERPIECE contains compositions by Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Fryderyk Chopin, and Claude Debussy, among others, as well as 20th-century, proto-ambient composers like Erik Satie and Arvo Part. Coco and Puttnam are quite faithful to the originals in spirit and in execution, and the entire album radiates with an ambient glow. Spare, minimal compositions (like Satie's "Berceuse" and Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude") are played with grace on solo piano, while symphonic pieces (like Mahler's "Adagietto") are filtered through lush synth textures.