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NWCR747 - Frederic Rzewski. Frederic Rzewski, piano Total playing time: 65:25. The basic technique, which I first used in a piece. Frederic Rzewski: Piano Piece No.4 - Play streams in full or download MP3 from Classical Archives (classicalarchives.com), the largest and best organized classical.

These first recordings by the composer of his own works can be likened to streams of bright light into darkened corners. Has long been a proponent of musical allegory and exhortation, and these two works are no exception. Also, no other American pianist has been so informed by popular and folk songs to the degree he has, yet also so rooted in what can be known as 'classical music.' Indeed, if had been a pianist as well as a songwriter at the end of the 20th century, he may have indeed been. The first work here, the 'Sonata for Piano, 1991,' is a case in thematic condensation. The three movements here echo 's preferences and also a pair by and one. They follow as allegro moderato, lento, agitato.

The first movement is based upon six popular songs of various times and places, including 'Ring Around the Rosy,' 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' 'Three Blind Mice,' and 'Give Peace a Chance.' To round them out are the Irish and French ballads 'Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye' and 'L'Homme Arme.' The use of the songs is far from humorous or sarcastic, though there is humor in this movement. The first movement is constructed of 64 periods of 12 seconds each, which are then played in condensed reverse order and boiled into 32, which are restated and recapitulated into 16, then eight, and finally distilled completely into four. Songs and their transformations then overlap, creating timelessness within time frames, constructing a dizzying polyphonic web that is available readily to any listener who cares to engage them. These are not merely intellectual exercises. The second movement is stark and moving, full of long spaces that emanate from its simple theme of 'Taps,' and sorrow, pain, and loneliness emanate from the keys of 's virtuosi hands.

Elemental moments from the first movement appear here, but in altered, 'variation' form. The final movement, which is based entirely on 'L'Homme Arme,' plays in 27 variations. Carpenters Midi Files. In all it is a work of striking profundity, a mediation on freedom, tradition, and responsibility.

'De Profundis' is an oratorio of sorts, which features eight musical sections preceding reading eight sections of a text wrote in prison. It is an oratorio that musically becomes a manifesto, and there are few -- none comes to mind in this form -- representative works to which it can be aligned.

It is powerful, political in the sense that all 's work is, and somewhat didactic but not in any offensive way (as if meditations on freedom ever could be). The end result of the triplets, harmonic extensions, and repeated thematic extrapolations serve the text well and give listeners a picture of they've perhaps never heard before either. These two works serve only to deepen what is already a widely held opinion, that is, since and, a terribly important American composer whose work best reflects the land it comes from; indeed, his music seems to emanate from the land itself -- no matter how critical and searing his view of its social, political, and religious conventions.