Solo [Live]

Oscar Peterson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1972
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Pablo
• ASIN: B00006JYBC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,515 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowing!!, October 14, 2002

By 

Roger Saxton (Las Cruces, New Mexico USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Solo (Audio CD)

Oscar spends the better part of an hour doing things on the piano
that can't be done on the piano. I have recordings of the most
technically demanding works of Liszt, Alkan, and Sorabji, as well
as the Ligeti Etudes. In comparison with the Peterson performances of Corcovado, Autumn Leaves, and Sweet Georgia Brown(just to mention a few), the works of the above mentioned
composers seem much less difficult to me than they did before I
heard this recording! However, this album wouldn't rate even
one star if it only had dazzling technique to offer the listener.

It is great because of how Oscar uses his technique. He approaches these songs as multifaceted tone poems and uses tempo changes, huge variations in loudness and softness,and the full range of the piano to bring out every facet in each of them. Despite the volcanic eruption of sound, not one note is wasted. The music laughs,whispers, shouts, cries, and dances. I don't own a greater recording of solo piano music in any genre. I hope enough people buy it to make it a best seller. It Deserves it!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Down Beat review April 2003, April 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Solo (Audio CD)

Down Beat: Excellent-to-classic. Solo is yet another previously unreleased discovery, a pair of 1972 solo concerts that, in addition to being relatively rare, are utterly dazzling in their intensity and rapidly shifting diversity of décor, dynamics, tempo and tone. The arpeggios swoop and dive like tracer fire in a program rich with both fluttering rose petals and hard rain power. -- John McDonough

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oscar Live, November 24, 2004

By 

gdamed - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solo (Audio CD)

I bought this album after hearing the Hogtown Blues played on the radio. I wasn't sure I believed it was a single person playing the piece; surely it had to be for piano four hands. Yet it was just Oscar. As an amatuer classical pianist for 35 years I'm usually critical of piano playing on recordings, but every time I listen to Oscar I'm just flat-out amazed...his ability is universes above most anybody I've heard. All I can do is appreciate his mastery of the instrument. This is one of the most amazing recordings I own. And when he accompanies Ella on other albums...