
"It still feels like my universe, though, and I’m proud that all these things which I never found a way to unite before now work together. It’s like I tossed flowers indiscriminately into a vase and then realised it looked exactly right."
P.S. pianomusic в telegram
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![John Lennon performed by Iiro Rantala - My Working Class Hero [2015] / jazz, solo piano, ACT John Lennon performed by Iiro Rantala - My Working Class Hero [2015] / jazz, solo piano, ACT](/uploads/posts/2015-12/thumbs/1449149670_7c323d441394.jpg)

Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala is nothing if not versatile. He can move from madcap jazz to the neo-classical improv of his new trio to Bach and Sibelius, creating thoughtful and novel renditions apparently at will. Even so, it's a surprise to find his latest album is dedicated to the music of John Lennon.
Rantala has recorded this solo piano set of Lennon tunes as a tribute to his own childhood hero, to commemorate what would have been the 75th anniversary of Lennon's birth on 9th October 2015. Using the Steinway D concert grand piano employed by classical legend Alfred Brendel with the Berlin Philharmonic (with even the piano tuner getting a sleeve credit), this is a session of brooding textures, space, touch and nuance. Rantala has mostly approached the project using a pared-down idiom, and the results are a late-night liturgy of memories and love for the music.
Rantala has recorded this solo piano set of Lennon tunes as a tribute to his own childhood hero, to commemorate what would have been the 75th anniversary of Lennon's birth on 9th October 2015. Using the Steinway D concert grand piano employed by classical legend Alfred Brendel with the Berlin Philharmonic (with even the piano tuner getting a sleeve credit), this is a session of brooding textures, space, touch and nuance. Rantala has mostly approached the project using a pared-down idiom, and the results are a late-night liturgy of memories and love for the music.
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![Lubomyr Melnyk - Rivers and Streams [2015] / modern classical, minimalism, solo piano Lubomyr Melnyk - Rivers and Streams [2015] / modern classical, minimalism, solo piano](/uploads/posts/2015-11/thumbs/1448705999_aocf77.jpg)
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Пока что этим альбомом, в котором представлены как и его вещи, так и интерпретации известных классических произведений, опять же - турецкий марш в джазовой обработке, клёво.
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Когда альбом очень нравится, и при поиске подобного натыкаешься на менее "понятные" вещи, грусть какая-то накатывает, и вдруг - вот он, долгожданный, понятный, близкий уху и сердцу!
Альбом 2007 года [ECM 1706] — это записанные в 2001 году в австрийском Mondsee сольные вариации. Манера игры Пола чем-то напоминает позднего Кита Джаррета с его бесконечными импровизациями. И если Джаррета иногда бывает даже "слишком много", то Блея как раз "столько, сколько надо". Вдумчиво и неторопясь, по европейски "холодно" и меланхолично, но ни в коей мере не занудно, он переплетает классическую музыку с джазовыми импровизациями.
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