Barber & Bartók: Keith Jarrett

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Jarrett's passagework [in the Barber] has a glittering edge, and he gives the music an exhilaratingly improvisatory feel. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th May 2015
Catalogue No: 4811580
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 58 minutes

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Barber: Piano Concerto Op. 38

Work length26:45

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Keith Jarrett (piano)
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies
Recorded: 2015
Recording Venue: Congresshalle, Saarbrücken

1. Allegro appassionato

Track length12:32

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2. Canzone. Moderato

Track length6:16

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3. Allegro molto

Track length7:57

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Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, BB 127, Sz. 119

Work length27:06

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Keith Jarrett (piano)
New Japan Philharmonic
Kazuyoshi Akiyama
Recorded: 2015
Recording Venue: Kan-i Hoken Hall, Tokyo

1. Allegretto

Track length7:42

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2. Adagio religioso

Track length10:16

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3. Allegro vivace

Track length9:08

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Jarrett, K: Nothing But A Dream

Work length4:52

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Keith Jarrett (piano)
New Japan Philharmonic
Kazuyoshi Akiyama
Recorded: 2015
Recording Venue: Kan-i Hoken Hall, Tokyo

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For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto op. 38 and Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and rising to the challenges of these major works. The New York Times praised Jarrett’s playing of the Barber with Dennis Russell Davies in this period (“a sinewy, vigorously lyrical performance … both sensitive and strong”), and the Bartók with Kazuyoshi Akiyama was most enthusiastically received in Japan. After the Tokyo Bartók performance Jarrett returned alone to the stage of the Kan-i Hoken Hall to play a touching improvised encore, also documented on this recording. The album includes liner notes by Keith Jarrett and Paul Griffiths. (This historical album of music by Barber, Bartók and Jarrett is one of two albums issued on May 8th, Keith Jarrett’s 70th birthday, the other album being Creation with new recordings of improvised solo piano.)

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August 2015

Jarrett's passagework [in the Barber] has a glittering edge, and he gives the music an exhilaratingly improvisatory feel.

July 2015

Put simply, Jarrett's fierce and authoritative command of Barber's difficult piano part is on a par with John Browning's benchmark performance. The octave onslaughts are not just accurate and assured but they also have shape and purpose...Jarrett's meticulous attention (for the most part, anyway!) to Bartok's phrasing and note values brings out the music's lyrical, speech-like syntax.

22nd May 2015

it’s easy to hear why he gravitated to these jazz-attuned composers. But the results still end up sounding mostly like Jarrett. His way with rhythm – spiky, pliant – works for the opening of Bartók’s Third Concerto, but Barber’s concerto has none of the colour gradations of a Jarrett great.

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