In a State of Jazz [Import]

Friedrich Gulda (Composer), Nikolai Kapustin (Composer), Alexis Weissenberg (Composer), George Antheil (Composer), Marc-André Hamelin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Marc-André Hamelin
• Composer: Friedrich Gulda, Nikolai Kapustin, Alexis Weissenberg, George Antheil
• Audio CD (May 13, 2008)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B0014WSVXG
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,044 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #25 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Forms & Genres > Sonatas
  • #60 in Music > Jazz > Orchestral Jazz
  • #90 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Sonatas > General

Track Listings

1. Exercise No. 1 from Play Piano Play (Freiderich Gulda)

2. Allegro molto (Sonata No. 2, Op. 54 - Nikolai Kapustin)

3. Scherzo: Allegro assai

4. Largo - Allegro

5. Allegro vivace

6. Exercise No. 4 from Play Piano Play -Allegro ma non troppo (Gulda)

7. Evocation d'un tango (Sonata in a state of jazz- Alexis Weissenberg)

8. Remininscence d'un charleston

9. Reflets d'un blues

10. Provocation de samba

11. Exercise No 5 from Play Piano Play- Moderato poco mosso (Gulda)

12. Prelude and Fugue (Gulda)

13. Coin de rue (6 arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet - Alexxis Weissenberg)

14. Vous oubliez votre cheval (Trenet and Brachlianoff)

15. En Avril a Paris (Trenet and Eiger)

16. Boum ! (Trenet)

17. Vous qui passez sans me voir (Hess & Misraki)

18. Menilmontant (Trenet)

19. Jazz Sonata - (George Antheil)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 13-MAY-2008

Customer Reviews

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Music, Amazing Performance, December 12, 2008

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Dr. Debra Jan Bibel "World Music Explorer" (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In a State of Jazz (Audio CD)

Shades of Art Tatum! Marc-André Hamelin must have incredible virtuosic hands and a quick brain to have performed such demanding works. Modern classical composers have been influenced by jagged jazz tempos and structures...we quickly think of Gershwin, Stravinsky, Ravel, Milhaud, and Bernstein, and jazz musicians have an unusually high regard for classical music. Composer Friedrich Gulda is featured here, and like Andre Previn, has feet in both realms. His exercises or etudes helped him to get away from the rigidity of classical forms. Nikolai Kaspustin's Sonata No. 2, of 1989 vintage is a marvel from Russia. The liner notes provides a long statement by Alexis Weissenberg about the development of his highly complex Sonate en état de jazz. The concluding brief piece by George Antheil is full of wit, nonsense, and joy. As Weissenberg observes, a state of jazz is not a normal state but a drunkenness of the soul operating within a cubist logic. If you love both jazz and classical music, you will especially dig this album. If jazz is terra incognita, buy it anyway and enjoy the splendor!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mark Andre-Hamelin delivers, April 24, 2009

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Cop3 "Rock and Roll for the People" (Savannah, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In a State of Jazz (Audio CD)

This is an excellent choice for those who enjoy piano and jazz. The cuts do not bore and haven't so far gotten old to my ear - I've listened to this CD almost constantly since I received it and I hear something different each time. I had been to a recital by Hamelin at which he played Sonata in a State of Jazz and was intrigued by both his ability and the work. The quality of this recording is superb and he is a master at this genre. For jazz lovers, or even those who crave something a little different, I recommend this CD.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In A State of Jazz, June 23, 2008

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Gawaine Dart - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In a State of Jazz (Audio CD)

First heard on Canadian radio, I was lucky to find it at AMazon. (where else?) As a long time listener to what is erroniously called "classical" music, I have found the clarity of expression in this CD amazing. Mr. Hamelin's renditions are a marvel of dexterity, and the Kapustin Sonata No 2 is so full of ear worms that I don't know whether to be angry or hopelessly in love. On a scale of five stars, 17!