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Norwegian Road Trip, Part 6: Molde Jazz, Days 3-4
by John Kelman
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 [Editors Note: From July 6 to July 26, 2010, All About Jazz Managing Editor John Kelman will travel throughout Norway to cover both the Kongsberg Jazz Festival (also participating in Silver City Sounds) and Molde ...
François Couturier: Un jour si blanc
by AAJ Italy Staff
Concepito quale ideale secondo volume di una trilogia fondamentalmente dedicata ad un ristretto giro di artisti ed intellettuali tra i quali Arseni Tarkovsky, poeta padre del grande regista russo Andrei, scomparso un quarto di secolo fa, Un jour si blanc è titolo mutuato proprio da un poema scritto da Tarkovsky padre nel corso del Novecento che ...
Francois Couturier: Un jour si blanc
by John Kelman
For forty years, ECM has created a fertile landscape for the solo piano recital. The list of illustrious pianists who have contributed to this pantheon is as stylistically broad as it is internationally inclusive. Paul Bley, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Marilyn Crispell, Jon Balke, Misha Alperin, Vassilis Tsabropoulos--all these pianists have placed their individual stamps on ...
Nostalghia - Song For Tarkovsky
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Le Sacrifice; Cr
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song For Tarkovsky
by Budd Kopman
Nostalghia is a breathtaking and beautiful record that elicited some of the deepest emotional responses I have ever had to music--any music. Standing on its own, this recording does not demand that one even know who Andrei Tarkovsky was; but finding this out only deepens the musical experience, signifying the success of this project.
Francois Couturier - Nostalghia: Song for Tarkovsky
by AAJ Italy Staff
Firenze - Teatro Goldoni - 29.12.2006 Negli ultimi anni della sua vita, il regista cinematografico Andrei Tarkovsky, malaccetto in URSS e dopo aver peregrinato per l'Europa, trovò accoglienza a Firenze. Dopo la sua morte, una fondazione, condotta da suo figlio e appoggiata dalle istituzioni locali, si è occupata e tuttora si occupa di ricordarne la memoria ...
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by AAJ Italy Staff
Album di grande fascino, questo che il pianista e compositore Francois Couturier ha dedicato al grande regista russo Andrei Tarkovsky, nel ventennale della scomparsa. Condotto in quartetto con il sassofonista Jean-Marc Larché ed il fisarmonicista Jean-Louis Matinier, abituali collaboratori di Couturier, con l'aggiunta della violoncellista Anja Lechner - splendida interprete dello strumento che Eicher, come usa ...
Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Le Sacrifice (quotes themes from J.S. Bach's Mattthauspassion); Crépusculaire (for Sven Nykvist); Nostalghia (for Toninho Guerra, quotes a theme fromt he third movement of Alfred Schnittke's Sonata for violoncello and piano); Solaris; Miroir; Solaris II; Andrei (quotes a theme from the third movement of Alfred Schnittke's Sonata for violoncello and piano); Ivan; Stalker (for Edouard Artemiev); Le Temps Scellé; Toliu (for Anatoli Solonitsyne, quotes excerpts from Amen from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater); L'éternel Retour (for Erland Josephson, quotes themes from J.S. Bach's Matthauspassion).
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by Brad Glanden
Working in the former Soviet Union during the Cold War era, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky encountered the repression typically endured by artists operating under the Kremlin's control. Unable to channel his frustrations into explicitly anti-authoritarian films, Tarkovsky instead concentrated on the equally savage conflicts of spirituality. Though the authorities in Russia backed him financially, his films ...
Francois Couturier: Nostalghia - Song for Tarkovsky
by John Kelman
Sight and sound are often inexorably linked. In the earliest days of silent film, musicians would provide live accompaniment to images on a screen. While scoring cinema has become an integral part of the visual narrative, music as homage to film is less common. Pianist François Couturier--familiar to ECM fans for his work with oudist Anouar ...
