Jeanne Golan - It Takes One to Tango (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Steinway and Sons releases Jeanne Golan's newest album, It Takes One to Tango. Golan describes the album as “a collection featuring tango-inspired gems that are largely unknown. The works are by recovered voices and living composers, two arenas that have long captured my fancy, centered on a dance I’ve come to embrace. The album itself mixes these composers and their time periods, whose music speaks to one another in unexpected ways."

Recovered voices refers to composers who were persecuted and often murdered as a consequence of the Nazi Regime. This association can box them into being considered writers of ‘serious’ music. But they just as seriously absorbed the newly popular jazz and cabaret scenes popping up in Paris and Berlin. Wilhelm Grosz and Erwin Schulhoff each wrote stylish, innovative and appealing suites based on dances that were all the rage in the 1920’s. Born a generation earlier, Wanda Landowska also turned to a current dance for her inspiration.

The first ‘one to tango’ is actually the composer writing in the studio. When the written page is passed on to the performer, a partnership forms whereby the music is then brought to life through the player’s choreography at the keyboard, much like the dance itself.

TRACKLIST

1. Jeanne Golan - No. 1, Bianco
2. Jeanne Golan - No. 2, Piglia
3. Jeanne Golan - No. 3, The Shady Side
4. Jeanne Golan - Reverie d'automne, Op. 6
5. Jeanne Golan - Laminar Flow in Upsidedown Creek (Arr. for Piano)
6. Jeanne Golan - I. Foxtrot
7. Jeanne Golan - II. Boston
8. Jeanne Golan - III. Tango
9. Jeanne Golan - IV. Shimmy
10. Jeanne Golan - V. Quasie Fivestep
11. Jeanne Golan - Incitation to Desire (Version for Piano)
12. Jeanne Golan - Pacita's Lunch
13. Jeanne Golan - No. 1, Charleston
14. Jeanne Golan - No. 2, Blues
15. Jeanne Golan - No. 3, Chanson
16. Jeanne Golan - No. 4, Tango
17. Jeanne Golan - No. 5, Toccata sur le shimmy "Kitten on the Keys" de Zez Confrey
18. Jeanne Golan - An American in Buenos Aires (Arr. J. Golan for Toy Piano & Piano)



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