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artist: Beirach-Huebner-Mraz
title: Round about Monteverdi
date: 2003
label: Act Music
genre: Jazz
rls. date: Feb/2004
tracks: 13
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 78,7 MB
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Like Keith Jarrett, Richie Beirach is a pianist with strong
classical inclinations, who has investigated several crossovers
into European formal music before, setting the work of Bartok
and Federico Mompou in jazz contexts. This collaboration
between Beirach, violinist Gregor Huebner and bassist George
Mraz not only explores seven Monteverdi themes but a variety of
baroque interconnections, including JS Bach, Palestrina, and
pieces from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
For the most part this is a very refined and meticulous series
of chamber-music delicacies. The opener, Monteverdi's poignant
Lamento d'Arianna is played absolutely straight off the dots;
but the first Stabat Mater piece edges into swing halfway in,
Beirach's sprightly chordal improvising style gambolling over
the majestic Mraz's walking bass, and the excellent violinist
Huebner taking off in muscular manner. It is over 20 minutes in
before anything approaching the raw or abstract happens, and in
general there is a plangent tone to the disc - but the playing
itself is beautiful.
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01-Lamento d'Arianna [01:34]
02-Responsoium #5 [04:21]
03-Eja Mater Fons Amoris [05:53]
04-Chant [04:59]
05-Ben Mio, Rimanti in Pace [04:38]
06-Orfeos Lament [07:29]
07-Fantasy on Orfeos Lament [01:15]
08-Fantasy on Fili Mi, Absalon [02:49]
09-Dialog Orfeo Messanger [04:21]
10-Around Dialog Orfeo Messanger [03:10]
11-Sancta Mater, Istud Agas [06:09]
12-Siciliana [06:02]
13-Fantasy on Lamento d'Arianna [04:31]
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57:11 min
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