DIGIPACK EDITION
Rock and jazz musicians have always “stolen” from the classics, but sometimes too, they have attempted completely faithful versions of classical opuses, in which originality and self-expression are matters of texture and exact registration rather than the invention of new melodies or variations. Miles Davis famously did it with Rodrigo’s Concierto De Aranjuez; there have been two recent “jazz” versions of Quartet For The End Of Time by Olivier Messiaen, who famously thought that jazz a “voleur” – robber – that plundered other musics for all its “original” effects. Here is a performance that perhaps offers a respectful restitution.
PERSONNEL:MICHELE CAMPANELLA, piano
JAVIER GIROTTO, saxes
Recorded Live at Jermann Winery (Ruttars, Italy) on 9 June 2017
TRACKS:01. Igor Stravinskij: Tango (1940)
02. Sergej Rachmaninov: Six Moments Musicaux, op. 16 n. 3
03. Sergej Rachmaninov: Preludes op. 23 n. 1
04-19. Modest Musorgskij: Tableaux d´une Exposition