Nicholas Phillips - American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano (2014)
Nicholas Phillips - American Vernacular: New Music for Solo Piano (2014)
Contemporary Classical | New Focus Recordings FCR 144 | 2014 | 76:50 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 275 MB
Nicholas Phillips, piano
Contemporary Classical | New Focus Recordings FCR 144 | 2014 | 76:50 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Various File Hosts | 275 MB
Nicholas Phillips, piano
...the talented, entrepreneurial pianist Nicholas Phillips engaged a range of composers to respond through music to the phrase “American vernacular.” The results cover an impressive stylistic span: glittering pop-infused études by Mark Olivieri (b. 1972) and Joel Puckett (b. 1977); luminous meditations from Ethan Wickman (b. 1973) and Ben Hjertmann (b. 1985); a bluesy finger-buster by Luke Gullickson (b. 1985); puckish miniatures by the unfailingly brilliant David Rakowski (b. 1958); and more.
Steve Smith, NYTimes ArtsBlog
The spiritual sublime is surprisingly close at hand in these pieces, the way that a motel room off the interstate keeps a Bible in the bedside table. Occidental Psalmody by Ethan Wickman and On the Drawing of Constellations by Ben Hjertmann both gaze heavenward for inspiration, while Luke Gullickson's Back Porch Requiem for John Fahey, a standout track, translates the titular guitarist's legendary fingerpicking style of American guitar playing into virtuosic pianism.But if Gullickson transforms Fahey's loping and amiable arpeggios into something a little showier, Phillips achieves the opposite with these endearingly modest interpretations. Some of the pieces in this program must be devilishly hard to play, but he'd much rather we notice the charm of the studies on "American Vernacular" than their difficulty.
Daniel Stephen Johnson, Q2 Music Album of the week
Track List:
01. I. Buenas Noches, Buenas Aires: hommage a Alberto Ginastera [0:03:24.50]
02. II. Stella by Sunlight: hommage a Billie Holiday [0:02:50.49]
03. III. Stakes Is Higher: hommage a Ahmad Jamal and De La Soul [0:04:01.64]
04. Occidental Psalmody [0:08:34.56]
05. On the Drawing of Constellations [0:06:49.66]
06. Bill-ytude [0:04:47.74]
07. Piano Miniature # 10 "Liberace" [0:01:11.64]
08. Piano Miniature #12 [0:03:27.72]
09. Piano Miniature #13 "America never was America to me" [0:03:51.35]
10. Beloved [0:05:41.71]
11. Back Porch Requiem for John Fahey [0:07:58.62]
12. Playin' and Prayin' [0:06:42.64]
13. A Southern Prelude [0:07:04.18]
14. I. Superfractalistic [0:02:57.18]
15. II. Growing Season Blues [0:04:15.02]
16. III. Ecoutez et Repetez [0:03:07.43]
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Of related interest:
www.nicholasphillips.net
www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/american-vernacular
Thorough review at The Classical Reviewer Link
David Greilsammer - Baroque Conversations (2012) Link
ZOFO - Mosh Pit (2013) Link
More contemporary American and European music is available at my blog.