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American pianist Jeremy Denk is known for unusual programs that juxtapose wildly different kinds of music, but nothing he has done before approaches the novelty of c.1300-c.2000, which is exactly what it sounds like: a survey of seven centuries of music, played on the piano. It's hard to say what Denk is up to here. The earlier pieces are not keyboard transcriptions but simple arrangements of pieces of medieval and Renaissance polyphony, carefully rendered versions of what a music history teacher might play during a class to illustrate the various styles. Then, at the beginning of the second disc in the physical release, Denk shifts gears into actual piano music. However, even here, his method is not really clear: Mozart is represented by the slow movement of the "easy" Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545, but that's followed by the mighty opening movement of Beethoven's final sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Denk says of the first part of the program that "I felt it was essential to deal with a more purely musical love: the art of counterpoint, a foundation of the long story to come." Yet the piano works on the album don't pick up this thread. All this said, Denk is often, as usual, quite compelling (sample the first disc's corker of a Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903), and there's an X factor here that gives the pianist points for sheer adventurousness in trying something absolutely new. Denk fans are likely to be quite pleased with this latest chapter.
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Doulz amis (Guillaume de Machaut)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Guillaume de Machaut, Composer
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Triste plaisir (Gilles Binchois)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Gilles Binchois, Composer
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Missa prolationum (Johannes Ockeghem)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Johannes Ockeghem, Composer
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Franc cuer gentil, sur toutes gracieuse (Guillaume Dufay)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Guillaume DuFay, Composer
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Missa Pange Lingua (Josquin des Prés)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Josquin des Prez, Composer
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Au joly jeu du pousse avant (Clement Janequin)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Clément Janequin, Composer
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My Ladye Nevells Booke (William Byrd)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - William Byrd, Composer
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Madrigali, Book VI (Carlo Gesualdo)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Carlo Gesualdo, Composer
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Scherzi musicali, SV 246-251 (Claudio Monteverdi)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Claudio Monteverdi, Composer
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Ye Tuneful Muses, Z. T681 (Henry Purcell)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Henry Purcell, Composer
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Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 551 (Domenico Scarlatti)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Domenico Scarlatti, Composer
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Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
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Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
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Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
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Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (Robert Schumann)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Robert Schumann, Composer
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24 Preludes, Op. 28 (Frédéric Chopin)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Frederic Chopin, Composer
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Tristan und Isolde, S. 447 (Richard Wagner)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Richard Wagner, Composer - Franz Liszt, Arranger
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4 Klavierstücke, Op. 119 (Johannes Brahms)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Johannes Brahms, Composer
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Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11 (Arnold Schönberg)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Arnold Schoenberg, Composer
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Images, Book 1, L. 110 (Claude Debussy)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Claude Debussy, Composer
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Piano-Rag-Music (Igor Stravinsky)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Igor Stravinsky, Composer
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Klavierstück I (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer
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Etude No. 2 (Philip Glass)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Philip Glass, Composer
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Etudes, Book 1 (György Ligeti)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer
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Triste plaisir (version II) (Gilles Binchois)
Jeremy Denk, Piano - Gilles Binchois, Composer
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Album review
American pianist Jeremy Denk is known for unusual programs that juxtapose wildly different kinds of music, but nothing he has done before approaches the novelty of c.1300-c.2000, which is exactly what it sounds like: a survey of seven centuries of music, played on the piano. It's hard to say what Denk is up to here. The earlier pieces are not keyboard transcriptions but simple arrangements of pieces of medieval and Renaissance polyphony, carefully rendered versions of what a music history teacher might play during a class to illustrate the various styles. Then, at the beginning of the second disc in the physical release, Denk shifts gears into actual piano music. However, even here, his method is not really clear: Mozart is represented by the slow movement of the "easy" Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545, but that's followed by the mighty opening movement of Beethoven's final sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Denk says of the first part of the program that "I felt it was essential to deal with a more purely musical love: the art of counterpoint, a foundation of the long story to come." Yet the piano works on the album don't pick up this thread. All this said, Denk is often, as usual, quite compelling (sample the first disc's corker of a Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903), and there's an X factor here that gives the pianist points for sheer adventurousness in trying something absolutely new. Denk fans are likely to be quite pleased with this latest chapter.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : Recorded January 2017 at the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:40:37
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Jeremy Denk
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Nonesuch
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music Solo Piano
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States.
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