Nancarrow - Complete Studies for Player Piano
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG6452272
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 5
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 28th October 2022
Contents
Works
Canons for Ursula (3)For Ligeti
Molto Presto
Para Yoko
Prelude (Allegro molto)
Sonatina for Piano
Studies for Player Piano
Study no.45 'discard'
Tango?
Toccata for Violin and Player Piano
Unpublished Study no.1
Unpublished Study no.4
Unpublished Study no.5
Artists
Conlon Nancarrow (player piano)Otfrid Nies (violin)
Works
Canons for Ursula (3)For Ligeti
Molto Presto
Para Yoko
Prelude (Allegro molto)
Sonatina for Piano
Studies for Player Piano
Study no.45 'discard'
Tango?
Toccata for Violin and Player Piano
Unpublished Study no.1
Unpublished Study no.4
Unpublished Study no.5
Artists
Conlon Nancarrow (player piano)Otfrid Nies (violin)
About
Recorded on restored grand pianos with Ampico playing devices from the Nancarrow collection, we hear his music for two player pianos in outstanding sound quality for the first time.
Conlon Nancarrow first appeared in European music centres in the 1980s. For decades he had lived in Mexican seclusion and, unnoticed by the public, had created a unique oeuvre from his fascination with player pianos. Ligeti aptly calls it "The Well-Tempered Clavier of the Twenty-First Century".
Nancarrow concentrates in his work on the time structure of tones. His highly complex polyphonic compositional style, often based on mathematical ratios, was inexecutable by flesh-and-blood pianists. The self-playing player piano offered the composer the performer he needed, decades before it became common practice to programme music through computers.
Nancarrow painstakingly punched hole after hole in the long rolls of paper that drive the player piano. It often took him months to make just five minutes of music. In the process, the limits of auditory experience are stretched to the utmost: up to 200 strokes per second create a rush of sound that even the human ear struggles to separate into individual notes.
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