Pianist Emanuele Arciuli has recorded American piano music before among the dozen or so releases he has made for the Stradivarius label, and Stradivarius' F. Rzewski -- J. Adams: Piano Works represents his fourth such effort. Arciuli's live performances have gained kudos from composers such as George Crumb, who commented to Arciuli after a Cincinnati performance in 1999 that "my music has never been so wonderfully performed." This disc restores to the catalog the Four Pieces (1977) by Frederic Rzewski, recorded by the ...
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Pianist Emanuele Arciuli has recorded American piano music before among the dozen or so releases he has made for the Stradivarius label, and Stradivarius' F. Rzewski -- J. Adams: Piano Works represents his fourth such effort. Arciuli's live performances have gained kudos from composers such as George Crumb, who commented to Arciuli after a Cincinnati performance in 1999 that "my music has never been so wonderfully performed." This disc restores to the catalog the Four Pieces (1977) by Frederic Rzewski, recorded by the composer for Vanguard when it was truly "new" music, but not seen in a long time. John Adams' Phrygian Gates is available in a number of other versions, but the more the merrier. Arciuli's version of Phrygian Gates is different from most others in that Adams' metronome markings are slightly modified; as Arciuli puts it, "I felt they did not suit the sound that I wanted and I (...) sacrificed numerical symmetry for the sake of the music" One intriguing aspect of this Stradivarius release...
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