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Music : Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues op. 87 / JarrettIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028943718929 Label: Ecm Records Manufacturer: Ecm Records Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Ecm Records Release Date: January 25, 2000 Studio: Ecm Records Sales Rank: 95596 MPN: 437189 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - It doesn't get any better than this.I am not a music "expert" so you may take this review with a grain of salt. I know what I like and this is amazing. Absolutely beautiful. In my humble opinion, it is warmer, more nuanced, and less rigid than the Nikolaieva or Ashkenazy versions. This would be on my "desert island" Top 5 list, no question about it. Rating: - IMPROVISED CLASSICAL MUSICAll the great classical composers were great improvisors. Because of the constraints of the academy, one wonders if most of todays players could even fake "Happy Birtrhday". We are lucky to have someone like Keith Jarrett alive in our own time. Since he is capable of actually improvising profound music, he seems to bring a liveness and spontenaity to this Shostakovich masterpiece. The first recording I ever heard was by Ashkenazy and even then I felt that something was missing. Then ... Read More Rating:  - A great combination...- Warm spring afternoon - Shostokovich Preludes and Fugues - Keith Jarrett Jarrett's peculiar bright aspect works exceptionally well with the more lyrical, optimistic pieces, (most of them, I think). For pieces having that Shostakovich life-is-out-of-kilter feel the color contrast is striking, but it's odd and unsettling in the bottomless-despair ones (few are in this category). I think Shostakovich would be pleasantly surprised by the way these sound. On the other ... Read More Rating: - My pick from Jarrett/Ashkenazy/NikolayevaI own recordings of this work by Jarrett, Ashkenazy and Nikolayeva (on Hyperion). Ultimately it is Jarrett's version that I find myself listening to most often. My main gripe with Nikolayeva is that she can be excessively slow. Ashkenazy -- though technically strong as one would expect -- has a tendency to hammer out some of the fugues in rigid staccato that suppresses the natural lyricism of the music. The flip side as argued by another reviewer is that Jarrett is sometimes "mushy", but that seems ... Read More Rating: - far and away the best, and don't give me no lip!Keith Jarrett himself must have expected wildly polarized reviews on his take of Shostakovich's preludes and fugues, and it's no wonder, as he is more popularly known as a modern jazz master. As I have had access to a public radio station music library, I decided to spend a weekend comparing and contrasting the different recording of this Opus 87, with score in-hand, by Jarrett, Nikolayevna, and Ashkenazy. I rate Jarrett first, second place going to Nikolayevna, and Ashkenazy bringing up ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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