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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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Guillaume de Machaut, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Gilles Binchois, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Johannes Ockeghem, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Guillaume DuFay, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Josquin des Prez, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Clément Janequin, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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William BYRD, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Claudio Monteverdi, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Henry Purcell, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Engineer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Robert Schumann, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Frederic Chopin, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Franz Liszt, Arranger - Richard Wagner, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Johannes Brahms, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Arnold Schoenberg, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Claude Debussy, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Philip Glass, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
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Gilles Binchois, Composer - Jeremy Denk, Piano, MainArtist
© 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.
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.
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About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:41:28
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Jeremy Denk
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Nonesuch
- Genre: Classical
© 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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