Tracklist:

1. Spiegel Im Spiegel
2. Fr Alina
3. Spiegel Im Spiegel
4. Fr Alina
5. Spiegel Im Spiegel

In July 1995, Arvo Prt and Manfred Eicher convened at Frankfurts Festeburgkirche with four insightful musicians the violinist, Vladimir Spivakov, the cellist, Dietmar Schwalke, and the pianists, Alexander Malter and Sergej Bezrodny to realize a recording intensely focused upon the composers Fr Alina and Spiegel im Spiegel. The outcome, the ECM New Series album, Alina, has a special place in the Estonian composers discography and for the ECM catalogue as well.

Fr Alina, written in 1976, was a breakthrough composition for Prt, and symbolically the starting point for works that followed. I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours, said Arvo Prt at the time. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Contemporary reviewers suggested that carefully following the flow of Alina would heighten perception. Gramophone described the album as the voice of internal exile, self-communing and highly personal but wholly accessible for anyone willing to listen. The big danger of listening to Alina is that much of what you hear afterwards will suddenly sound like noise too much noise. But its a risk worth taking.