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John Wolf Brennan: Pictures In A Gallery
Tutto questo per dire, semplicemente e molto apertamente, che questo album mi è piaciuto molto. La musica in esso contenuta è sempre consequenziale ai quadri con cui Brennan si confronta. Consequenziale, mai descrittiva. Il quadro è infatti simultaneamente oggetto e soggetto dell'interesse del pianista. E' assente ma, al tempo stesso, fortissimamente presente nei brani.
Brennan ci mette a contatto con i dipinti (e, nell'ultima parte dell'album, con la poesia) attraverso frammenti, atmosfere, impressioni, associazioni. Chiamatele affinità elettive, se volete. Alcune ovvie ed evidenti (basta scorrere i titoli - a cominciare da quello del CD - per averne un'idea), altre più sottili e percepibili solo dall'ascoltatore più avveduto (e chissà quante ne ha mancate il sottoscritto!). Sempre con un tratto di leggerezza e di affettuosa ironia.
Integrazione fondamentale all'ascolto dell'album, il libretto che accompagna il CD riporta sia le immagini dei quadri su cui Brennan stende le sue pennellate sonore, sia i versi di Pushkin (nella traduzione inglese).
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Track Listing
Live At The Rosengarten Collection, Lucerne, Sitzerland, December 12, 2002 1. O pen, to be (piano duo) 2:59; - Picasso Triptych: (Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973) 2) Aubade (after “The Morning Music”, 1967) 1:51 3) Pipe ou pas? (after “Standing Nude and Seated Man with Pipe”, 1968) 1:37 4) Amour fou (after “Rembrandtesque Figure and Cupid”, 1969) 1:29 5) Etude (after Paul Cézanne: “Study of bathers”, 1900-06) 2:34 6) Candy’n’Sky (after Wassily Kandinsky: “Multiple Forms”, 1936) 3:01 7) Dancer in the Sky (after Joan Miró: “Dancer II”, 1925) 2:33 - Klee Pentagram: (Paul Klee, 1879-1940) 8) Little X (after “X-chen/Little X“, 1938) 2:01 9) ABC (after “ABC für Wandmaler/ABC for Muralists”, 1938) 4:19 10) Full Moon (after “Vollmondopfer/Sacrifice at Full Moon”, 1933) 3:13 11) Lagoon (after “Lagunenstadt/Town on a Lagoon“, 1932) 2:24 12) Erosengart (after “Eros”, 1923) 3:21 13) Anyway - was there ever nothing? 6:24 14) The Rite of String (dedicated to Angela Rosengart) 3:13 15) You can‘t be Sirius! (piano duo) 2:17 16) Meditation on a Medieval Song (“Ach bitt‘rer Winter”, 1505) 4:50 17) Song of the Moon 2:04 18) Be flat 4:25 19) Paraph(r)ase (on Steve Reich‘s “Violin Phase“) 4:39 Live at Zapasnoj Palace, Pushkin, St.Petersburg/Russia, 24.6.1999 - Pushkin Heptagon: (Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837) 20) Amazing Moment (after Pushkin’s poem “To ***”, 1825) 1:01 21) Clamorous Processions 2:17 22) Tempest 0:50 23) Drag in Strife 2:39 24) Waking Moment 1:34 25) Enchanting Light 1:27 26) Tender Tears 1:19 27) The last Waltz (Sergey Kuryokhin, 1954-1996) 2:54
Personnel
John Wolf Brennan
pianoJohn Wolf Brennan (pianoforte)
Album information
Title: Pictures In A Gallery | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: Leo Records
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