Stefan Wolpe - Piano Music

Stefan WOLPE (1902-1972)

Piano Music

Gesang, Weil Ich Etwas Teures Verlassen Muss: Langsam, Etwas Starr

Stehende Musik: Sehr Schnell

Tango

Rag-Caprice: Mäßig Schnell Und Federnd  

Cinq Marches Caractéristiques, Op. 10: Nr. 1 Energico 

Passacaglia

Dance In Form Of A Chaconne: Allegro Moderato

Toccata In Three Parts

Battle Piece

Geoffrey Douglas Madge (Piano)

Recorded in Studio Stolberger Strasse, 

Cologne, Germany on 4-8 July 1988.

What a beautiful sound with these renders! G.M. Madge once again (that is, I have been an admirer of it for a long time, including disappointments or even detachment from a certain recognizability), amazes me, enthusiastic about it, and I giggle because putting myself on this CD I did not remember that it was in his hands: G.M. Madge to a piano unfortunately not better accredited produces an action like that giving the speech, and how much music, to certain pieces of paper placed on a pile of wooden strings, hardware ...

I will be tranchant, I cannot now assure how much this is S. Wolpe and how much a Wolpe of G.M. Madge, but thank you very much: what a record ... of art!

For academics we will say that it is a Wolpe-Madge between ... serial and jazz? mmh except the inner harpsichord ...

CPO 1988 in addition to producing excellent acoustics gives the habit of a few seconds of silence more than the usual one here and there between the pieces, another reason for complicity in more concentrated listening.

Writing, as a game of phonemes in the idea of ​​little other than boundless richness as it can be traveled in fluency and even pressing tracing, is celebrated without ideology but with a beloved physiology ...

Curiously, the program is only chronological, in the sense that it seems rather proposed to effect, in the result of a winking fantasy in progression, than a wandering oneironautic sequence.

In short, an hour and a quarter well spent, if desired, or a catalog d'oiseaux impossibles with excellent archive benefit 1920-1969.

From Amazon, translated from italian.