Billy Joel Opus 1-10 Fantasies & Delusions Music for Solo Piano

Hyung-ki Joo

Lançado em 28/09/2001 por Columbia
Artistas principais: Hyung-ki Joo
Género: Clássica

Disponível em

16-Bit/44.1 kHz Estéreo

Streaming ilimitado

Escute agora este álbum em alta qualidade nos nossos aplicativos

Iniciar meu período de teste e começar a escutar este álbum

Curta este álbum nos aplicativos Qobuz com a sua assinatura

Assinar

Curta este álbum nos aplicativos Qobuz com a sua assinatura

It was pretty clear that Billy Joel had run out of steam by 1993's River of Dreams. He had shown signs of wearing on its predecessor, Storm Front, but his trademark melodic gift disappeared on River of Dreams and his words, even performances, were bone-tired -- he even called the last song "The Last Song (No More Words)." So, it was no great surprise that he did not rush to record a follow-up, and when he started murmuring toward the end of the decade that perhaps he wasn't interested in pop music anymore, nobody who paid attention could have been surprised. And it wasn't a surprise that he decided to turn toward classical music since, by that point, it had become a cliché for pop musicians who wanted to be taken seriously. What is a surprise is that the resulting project, Fantasies & Delusions, is pretty successful -- it's a nice collection of pleasingly modest, melodic solo piano pieces, mainly sonatas, written by Joel and performed by Richard Joo. Joel succeeds because he kept his ambitions reasonable and was smart about presentation. He didn't compose symphonies, he wrote piano pieces and passed them off to somebody who could play them dexterously in the way they were meant to be played. It's actually charming, since it's possible to hear Joel diligently working within the forms of classical music while retaining the recognizable melodic flair of his pop work. These are still not pieces that you'll wind up humming, but as pop/classical crossovers go, this is among the best in recent memory -- better than McCartney's operettas and symphonies, better than Joe Jackson's stilted work. And it's a hell of a lot more rewarding than River of Dreams.

© TiVo

Mais informações

Billy Joel Opus 1-10 Fantasies & Delusions Music for Solo Piano

Hyung-ki Joo

Você está escutando amostras.

Escute mais de 100 milhões de músicas com um plano de streaming ilimitado.

Escute esta playlist e mais de 100 milhões de músicas com os nossos planos de streaming ilimitado.

A partir de R$ 21,60/mês

Reverie (Villa D'Este)

Billy Joel

00:09:31

Billy Joel, Composer - Don DeVito, Co-Producer - Richard Joo, Performer - Richard Joo, Piano - Richard King, Mastering Engineer - Richard King, Recording Engineer - Steven Epstein, Mastering Engineer - Steven Epstein, Producer - Todd Whitelock, Edited By - William Joel, Composer