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Jacob Karlzon - Piano Improvisations Inspired By Maurice Ravel (2008) [Contemporary Jazz, Classical]; FLAC (tracks)

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Jacob Karlzon - Piano Improvisations Inspired By Maurice Ravel (2008) [Contemporary Jazz, Classical]; FLAC (tracks)

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Artist: Jacob Karlzon
Album: Piano Improvisations Inspired By Maurice Ravel
Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Classical
Label: Caprice Records
Released: 2008
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
  1. Prélude
  2. Menuet Antique
  3. Le Gibet
  4. Free Improvisation II
  5. Valse Nobles Et Sentimentales, Assez Lent
  6. Boléro
  7. Alborada Del Gracioso
  8. Free Improvisation IV
  9. Free Improvisation III
  10. Menuet Sur Le Nom D'Haydn

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An acknowledgement of Karlzon's stature came when he was asked by Concerts Sweden (Rikskonserter), a state-run foundation that promotes live music, to participate in the third of its Caprice record label's Improvisational series. The idea of the series is "to create new and challenging musical platforms for improvised music." Each record is created under identical conditions, recorded at night in the concert hall at Nybrokajen 11 in central Stockholm, headquarters of Concerts Sweden, on a Steinway grand piano with only a producer/sound technician present. Pianists are not told what the theme for their particular session will be before recording starts.

Karlzon's theme was the work of Maurice Ravel (1875-1935), the French Impressionistic composer best known for "Bolero," which he himself considered trivial, describing it jokingly as "a piece for orchestra without music."

A shortened version is included here, along with six other pieces and three "free improvisations" by Karlzon in the spirit of Ravel. While he may not yet be another Arthur Rubinstein or Krystian Zimerman, Karlzon acquits himself extraordinarily well, gaining in confidence as the session—or perhaps recital—progresses. The only jarring note is an interpretation of "Alborada Del Gracioso" that is a tad heavy-handed, though Karlzon more than makes up for this with the two "free improvisations" that follow and concludes in fine, lyrical style on "Menuet Sur Le Nom d'Haydn."

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