Steve Reich: Six Pianos / Terry Riley: Keyboard Study #1 Import LP

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Description

Interpretation of Works by Reich & Riley with a Modern Approach on Vinyl LP!

After the widely noticed performance at the Acht Brücken Festival 2016 at Cologne's Philharmonic Hall, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hauschka, Erol Sarp (of Grandbrothers), Daniel Brandt and Paul Frick (both of Brandt Brauer Frick) and John Kameel Farah released their interpretation of Steve Reich's Six Pianos as a studio recording via FILM. The re-recording of this piece is an interpretation of Reich's composition but still far more than just that - it is a modern approach to his idea behind it.

The basic idea came up at the beginning of the '70s at the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company in New York. During a rehearsal phase, which Steve Reich spent in this very piano store, the idea emerged of writing a composition for all the grand pianos available to him at the company. By the time of the finished piece, the actual number of pianos had settled down to six, hence Six Pianos developed in 1973.

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the six pianists declare their love to Steve Reich with this release. Shaped by electronic club music as well as their classical education, they form Six Pianos in dignified modernity and top it off with today's sound aesthetics and technical recording possibilities. Presented here is not the recording from the Kölner Philharmonie (Cologne Philharmonics), but the ensemble playing six different grand pianos in six different locations throughout Germany. Each pianist performed his part on his piano using his typical studio equipment and passed the recording over to the next one. Thus the six characteristic and individual timbres of the performers overlay to create the overall picture - Six Pianos the way it should be looked at today. Jan Brauer mixed Six Pianos in the studio while Lukas Vogel provided delays for the Keyboard Study #1.

Keyboard Study #1 by Terry Riley is a worthy companion for Reich's composition. The piece is kind of a building set of ever-lengthening, repetitive patterns played against each other with the right and left hand displaced. The composition proposes various possible combinations for the performer to choose from and repeat at will. And what the performers have chosen proves Gregor Schwellenbach's assumption: "Terry Riley's and Steve Reich's music are open doors for pianists socialized by pop music and their audience."

Features

Vinyl LP
2022 Repress
Import
Limited-Time Download Code

Musicians

Daniel Brandt	piano
Erol Sarp	piano
Gregor Schwellenbach	piano
Hauschka	piano
John Kameel Farah	piano
Paul Frick	piano
Lukas Vogel	delays