Uri Caine: Classical Variations

Modern Jazz
premiera polska: 2008-12-01
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
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In October 2007 Uri Caine receives the "Echo Klassik", the most significant award in the German music world. At the nationwide ZDF television gala show "Echo der Stars" hosted by the actress Maria Furtwängler – granddaughter of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler – Uri Caine and his Ensemble perform the Turkish Rondo after Mozart. In other years artists like Sir Simon Rattle, Rolando Villazón, Cecilia Bartoli, Montserrat Caballé, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Vesselina Kasarova, José Carreras, Isaac Stern, Giora Feidman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Anna Netrebko, Daniel Barenboim and Nigel Kennedy have been award winners.
In the last decade no other artist has influenced the development of the classical music and the jazz scene in such an important way as Uri Caine. His adaptions and re-compositions of classical works found enthusiastic acceptance worldwide. Uri Caine is celebrated for these eclectic and inventive interpretations. In recognition of this Uri Caine receives the "Echo Klassik". Winter & Winter took this wonderful occasion to produce a special album with the title Uri Caine "The Classical Variations" featuring previously unreleased music after Bach, Mahler and Verdi and already renowned recordings after Beethoven, Schumann, Mahler and Wagner.
The opening track "Only Love Beauty" after "Liebst du um Schönheit" from the Rückertlieder by Gustav Mahler is a special new a cappella recording by Barbara Walker and the Kettwiger Bach Ensemble produced in Krefeld during Uri Caine's rehearsals of the 3rd Symphony after Gustav Mahler. It has been the wish of Uri Caine to make that excellent performance available to the public. The album "The Classical Variations" gives Caine not only the possibilty to release that previously unreleased track but also to introduce various new compositions written after Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. Track 4 and track 18 present Uri Caine and Vittorio Ghielmi's viola da gamba quartet with a totally new version of the variation number X and XXII. Also "The Midnight Variation" featuring the Uri Caine Ensemble and Greg Osby and "The Brass and Drums Variation" featuring Ralph Alessi, Josh Roseman and Bob Stewart are new productions recorded in New York. Caine's piano solo "The Fats Variation" is a dedication to Fats Waller. Caine has also written for the jazz clarinet player Don Byron and the classical lutist Michael Freimuth, a new duet to connect the very personal styles of these two extraordinary solists. And the classical recorder player Cordula Breuer and lutist Michael Freimuth perform a new classical compositions by Uri Caine after Bach, besides various new eletronic sound sculptures by DJ Logic. In 2007 the young Swedish vocalist Josefine Lindstrand recorded Caine's "Desdemona's Lament" in Rome. This song is part of Uri Caine's "Othello Syndrome", a new adaption of Verdi's "Otello" which was premiered at the Biennale in Venice. Besides these new works Caine selected some of his favorite works to complete this album "The Classical Variations".
Andrew McGregor wrote in 2007 (BBC Clasical review) about Uri Caine's Diabelli Variations: »Don't waste your time reading this review: beg, borrow or buy a copy of this life-enhancing disc as soon as possible. You could be getting an online record shop to post it to you right now, so what are you waiting for? What, you want to know what exactly Uri Caine's done to the Diabelli Variations? That's the problem, you see; it's very hard to describe, and if I'm successful it'll spoil the element of surprise that's such a delicious part of hearing this CD for the first time. Alright, introductions first. Uri Caine's a pianist who trained classically in Philadelphia while playing jazz at night just round the corner from the university campus. He's able to move between and join together the two worlds more successfully than most performers, and always with intriguing results...as you'll know if you've already come across Caine's re-readings of Mahler, Schumann songs, Italian café-style Wagner, or Bach's Goldberg Variations. With the Diabellis, says Caine, he's looked very closely at how Beethoven was parodying the original (rather dull!) theme...then made his own parody of the parody.
It's brilliant: illuminating, fascinating, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. Unlike in his Goldbergs, Caine sticks pretty closely to the original Beethoven Variations... at least the orchestra does, while Caine comments and quips in penetrating interjections and witty asides from his fortepiano. Yes, I did say orchestra: Concerto Köln, for the period-instrument equivalent of a jazzers big-band arrangement. You'll have fun spotting the other bits of Beethoven (and Bach) Caine manages to weave into the texture, and the packaging is almost as enjoyable as the contents -I'll leave you to discover it for yourself.
If you don't come away from the whole experience with a grin a mile wide, and wanting to hear the original Beethoven again, then there's probably no hope for you. Not for purists. No, wait: it should be mandatory for purists.«
Uri Caine and Stefan Winter have produced 17 albums in the last 15 years. "The Classical Variations" presents the quintessence of these works including two brilliant variation after Beethoven's Diabelli.

utwory:
1. Only Love Beauty (after Mahler) [2:51]
Barbara Walker - vocals
Kettwiger Bach Ensemble - choir

2. Variation XXXII (after Beethoven) [6:00]
Uri Caine - fortepiano Erard 1839
Concerto Köln

3. Variation XXXIII (after Beethoven) Uri Caine - fortepiano Erard 1839 [2:21]
Concerto Köln

4. Variation 10 for Fortepiano and Viola da Gamba Quartet (after Bach) [1:28]
Uri Caine - fortepiano Silbermann
Vittorio Ghielmi - viola basso
Rodney Prada - viola tenore
Paolo Biordi - viola soprano
Cristiano Contadin - viola basso

5. Hör' Ich das Liedchen Klingen When I Hear the Song (after Schumann) [2:11]
Uri Caine - piano
Shulmith Wechter Caine - poet
Mark Ledford - vocals

6. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube/The Rose, the Lily, the Dove (after Schumann) [0:27]
Uri Caine - piano
David Moss - vocals
Mark Ledford - vocals

7. Am Leuchtenden Sommermorgen/This Glowing Summer Morning (after Schumann) [3:09]
Uri Caine - piano
Julie Patton - poet
Mark Ledford - vocals
David Gilmore - guitar

8. The Midnight Variation (after Bach) [3:25]
Uri Caine - piano
Ralph Alessi - trumpet
Greg Osby - alto saxophone
Josh Roseman - trombone
James Genus - drums
Ralph Peterson - drums

9. The Brass and Drums Variation (after Bach) [2:31]
Ralph Alesi - trumpet
Don Byron - clarinet
Josh Roseman - trombone
Bob Stewart - tuba
Ralph Peterson - drums

10. Prelude [Tristan und Isolde] (after Wagner) [8:45]
Uri Caine - piano
Mark Feldman - 1st violin
Joyce Hammann - 2nd violin
Erik Friedlander - cello
Drew Gress - accordion
Dominic Cortese - accordion

11. The Scratch Variation (after Bach) [0:53]
DJ Logic

12. The Fats Variation (after Bach) [2:19]
Uri Caine - piano

13. Variation for Lute and Clarinet (after Bach) [3:06]
Don Byron - clarinet
Michael Freimuth - lute

14. Urlicht - Primal Light (after Mahler) [2:32]
Mark Feldman - violin
Dave Binney - soprano saxophone
Don Byron - clarinet
Josh Roseman - trombone
Michael Formanek - bass

15. Variation 27 for Lute an Flute (after Bach) [2:10]
Cordula Breuer - soprano recorder
Michael Freimuth - lute

16. Desdemona's Lament (after Verdi) [4:36]
Uri Caine - piano
Josefine Lindstrand - vocals
Chris Speed - clarinet
John Hebert - bass
Jim Black - drums

17. The Organ Variation (after Bach) [1:14]
DJ Logic

18. Variation 22 for Fortepiano and Viola da Gamba Quartet (after Bach) [1:21]
Uri Caine - fortepiano Silbermann
Vittorio Ghielmi - viola basso
Rodney Prada - viola tenore
Paolo Biordi - viola soprano
Cristiano Contadin - viola basso

19. Turkish Rondo from Piano Sonata [K.331] in A-Major (after Mozart) [8:41]
Uri Caine - piano
Joyce Hammann - violin
Chris Speed - clarinet
Ralph Alessi - trumpet
Nguyên Lê - guitar
Dj Olive - turntables
Drew Gress - bass
Jim Black - drums

20. Symphony No 5 Adagietto (after Mahler) [12:42]
Uri Caine - piano
Mark Feldman - violin
Ralph Alessi - trumpet
David Binney - alto saxophone
DJ Olive - turntables
Michael Formanek - bass
Jim Black - drums

total time - 72:36
nagrano: 1993
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