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Concerti III: Poulenc, McPhee, Adams | Neos Music NEOS21703

Concerti III: Poulenc, McPhee, Adams

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Label: Neos Music

Cat No: NEOS21703

Barcode: 4260063217036

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 10th March 2017

Contents

Artists

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Trio Mediaeval
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Brad Lubman

Works

Adams, John

Grand Pianola Music

McPhee, Colin

Tabuh-tabuhan

Poulenc, Francis

Concerto in D minor for 2 pianos and orchestra

Artists

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
Trio Mediaeval
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Conductor

Brad Lubman

About

Three completely different composers – but three works with a great deal in common: Gamelan, Minimal, Parody. Our outstanding GrauSchumacher Piano Duo keeps creating surprising but logical ideas, realizing these with fantastic pianistic virtuosity.

When American composers bade farewell during the 1960s to the cerebral exercises of the European avant-garde substantiated by historical-philosophical considerations, proclaiming the cult of a new simplicity, they also did this with reference to African drumming rituals, Indonesian gamelan music, pop-art and pop-music. They called the result “minimal music”, whose most important characteristic, as with the gamelan, was repetitive patterns above a steady beat; these are transported into other musical aggregate states by means of gradually increasing (at first almost unnoticeable) disturbances, irregularities and phase shifts. Together with the re-enthronement of the major and minor keys, these procedures frequently created psychedelic effects – by no means unintentionally.

John Adams has provided a particularly vivid report on the stimuli that led him to compose his Grand Pianola Music: he dreamt that he was driving on Interstate Highway 5 when he was approached from behind by two black stretch-limousines; when they passed him, they were transformed into the world’s longest Steinway pianos and then fired salvos of B flat major and E flat major arpeggios at 90 miles per hour. Another important stimulus was the recollection of having walked through the halls of the San Francisco Conservatory and heard the sonic flood of twenty or more pianos “playing Chopin, the Emperor Concerto, Hanon, Rachmaninoff, the Maple Leaf Rag, and much more.”

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