Frederic Rzewski - Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works, 1975-1999 (2002) [7CD Box Set]

• Title: Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works, 1975-1999
  
• Year Of Release: 2002
  
• Label: Nonesuch
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue, log, scans)
  
• Total Time: 06:34:34
  
• Total Size: 1,4 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

From his 1975 mega-variation set, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, to his eight-hour "novel for piano," The Road, Frederic Rzewski breathed new life, passion, and vitality into the long dormant composer-pianist tradition. Political and social issues provide a subtext from which Rzewski's musical imagination explodes with purposeful virtuosity, stylistic freedom, and high drama. He can conjure slow droplets of notes on a dark, still background ("A Life"), only to cram and compress a multitude of disparate popular themes within a larger, traditional framework (Sonata for Piano), or integrate music and spoken words to a level where they cannot exist without the other ("De Profundis"). Rzewski the composer provides Rzewski the pianist plenty of opportunity to display his ingenious improvisatory mettle: his cadenzas for "Mein Yingele, Which Side Are You On" particularly dazzle. There are, to be sure, other ways to play this music, such as Marc-André Hamelin's suavely proficient People United and Paul Jacobs's authoritative premiere recording of the North American Ballads. But the elemental force and personality defining Rzewski's pianism leave as indelible an imprint as his music. No lover of contemporary piano music should miss this important, superbly annotated release. --Jed Distler


Tracks:

Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021)

CD 1 :

North American Ballads
The Housewife's Lament

CD 2 :

Mayn Yingele (My Little Son) 24 variations
A Life (dedicated to the memory of John Cage)
Fougues

CD 3 :

Fantasia
Sonata

CD 4 :

The Road, Parts I & II

CD 5 :

The Road, Parts III & IV

CD 6 :

The People United Will Never Be Defeated (El pueblo unido jamás será vencido), 36 Variations on a Chilean Song

CD 7 :

De Profundis

Personnel:

Frederic Rzewski (piano)

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