Manufacturer: Ecm Records
For many, Keith Jarrett is still best known for his jazz forays: extended yet gorgeous improvisations at the keyboard that literally hypnotize listeners (and helped fund ECM, still the artist's label of choice). So, it would be easy to expect Jarrett to deliver a seat-of-your-pants, highly improvised interpretation of these three Mozart piano concertos. You'd be wrong, however. Jarrett's ...
Shostakovich composed his 24 Preludes and Fugues for the brilliant Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva (whose own distinguished version is also on disc), but it's American Keith Jarrett who really nails these amazing, revelatory works which together form one of the masterpieces of 20th-century piano music. This recording is a must for all lovers of piano music and of Bach, whose own works ...
Manufacturer: ECM Records
Manufacturer: Testament UK
Rarely does a recording convey such a feeling of total harmony--performance, sound, and overall ambience. Handel's all-too-infrequently heard suites are genuine masterpieces, brimming with melodic brilliance and irresistible rhythmic energy. The performances likewise are brilliant and irresistible--clear, detailed, stylish, and surprising in their expressive range. Performed with ardent skill on ...
Hymns/Spheres, the original double LP from which the four pieces here are drawn, was perhaps too long and somewhat self-indulgent, and ultimately risked tedium. Yet the album contained some of the most transcendent music Keith Jarrett has recorded. In 1976, he came upon the mighty Trinity Organ, built by Karl Joseph Riepp (1710-1775) at the Benedictine Abbey in Ottobeuren, and proceeded to ...
