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a r t i s t : Joachim Kuhn
t i t l e : Piano Works - Allegro Vivace
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Act
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Jan-2006
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 70,10 MB
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Joachim Kuhn: piano
Recorded June 12th, 2003, at Studio la Buissonne, France, by
Gerard de Haro
If there's a pianist who can record Bach, Mozart, John
Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman while also including his own
compositions without their seeming out of place, it can only be
Joachim Kuhn. Born in Leipzig in 1944, he regularly performed
in classical concerts as a child, before his first appearance
on the international jazz stage at the age of 19 - and where
until now he still remains a major figure, not least in Europe.
This CD by Joachim Kuhn is the first of a new series of piano
recordings, with which ACT Music now wishes to showcase famous
pianists performing solo. And Kuhn shows in this release, which
he calls "Allegro Vivace", that he has an unsurpassable and
amazingly broad technical range: Couperin, Bach, Coltrane,
Coleman - they're all here, both in their own right but also
very much in the image of Kuhn .
Joachim Kuhn remarks very pointedly about these recordings: "I
show here not how well I can play the piano: I rather play
music". And that's really the core of what this album is about.
It goes without saying that he plays well. But whoever hears
this album feels immediately that he is in no way just showing
off, but rather that he has a creative enthusiasm to get to the
heart of each piece - so that in his hands they sound as though
they were made for each other. His understanding for how close
the different musical worlds can actually be to one another was
put in focus a few years ago, when Kuhn recorded Bach with the
Leipzig Thomaner Choir under Thomas Kantor and Christoph
Biller. "Sometimes I thought: today you're doing this, but in
two days' time you'll be playing again with Ornette Coleman.
How does that work? And then I realized that the gap isn't
really that big."
And there are certainly no incongruities of style here, despite
the amazing musical range. The first piece, "Plain chant du
premier Kyrie, en taille" comes from a 1690 mass by the French
composer Franois Couperin. He extends the measured voices of
the originals with an improvisation, where fragments of the
bass line gain an ever-increasing jazz personality - before
finally returning to the starting point. "The rationale is that
I can here improvise in other directions than before", says
Kuhn about his pieces by Couperin, Bach and Mozart. "I have
taken the themes and then tried to make them my own."
Thus he is not afraid of tackling such weighty pieces as the
"Chaconne" by Bach. This is the fifth movement of Johann
Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor: a
movement that in the original takes over 15 minutes to perform
and is a benchmark for all violinists, because the Chaconne is
the perfect opportunity to show a universe of contrapuntal and
emotional expression. A falling bass figure is being constantly
metamorphosed and then reborn with newly-built chord structures
- and with Kuhn they are being constantly taken further with
eruptions and sharp contrapuntal improvisations worthy of the
best of free jazz.
Kuhn doesn't actually take a piano piece by Mozart but rather
the famous Clarinet Concerto (in A major, KV622): "I have
always loved it - as a result of both my brother (clarinettist
Rolf Kuhn) and Benny Goodman." Here the pianist sticks to the
basic of three movements, though within this always adds
improvised sections. In this case the balance between the
original and improvised extensions is especially unexpected.
And when Kuhn adds a lyrical pearl of the great saxophonist
John Coltrane at the end of the concerto's rondo ("Lonnie's
Lament") it has its own inner logic.
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01-Pleinchant du premier Kyrie, en taille (Couperin) [04:48]
02-Chaconne (J.S. Bach) [12:32]
03-Konzert in A - Allegro (Mozart) [05:22]
04-Konzert in A - Adagio (Mozart) [05:17]
05-Konzert in A - Rondo (Mozart) [03:09]
06-Lonnie's Lament (Coltrane) [05:22]
07-She And He Is Who Fenn Love (Coleman) [03:58]
08-Allotropes, Elements Different Forms Or Same (Coleman) [04:47]
09-The Night (Kuhn) [05:18]
10-Invisible Portrait (Kuhn) [04:26]
11-Mar y Sal (Kuhn) [07:04]
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62:03 min