Frederic Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)
Frederic Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | PDF Booklet + Piano sheet
Hyperion | Recorded: 1998 | Released: 1999
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | PDF Booklet + Piano sheet
Hyperion | Recorded: 1998 | Released: 1999
To the uninitiated it is hard to describe the musical world of the American composer Frederic Rzewski. A pianist himself, Rzewski initially made a name for himself as a champion of the avant-garde, performing everything from Cage to Boulez. In the '70s his own music took a much more populist turn as his political beliefs drove him to find a much more approachable language, basically tonal and incorporating much quotation from popular music. It is music of this period that is recorded here.
The People United Will Never Be Defeated! 36 Variations on a Chilean protest song, has been likened to a twentieth-century 'Diabelli' Variations. This lengthy work is a tour de force of compositional and keyboard virtuosity, exhilarating and emotionally all-encompassing in its effect. Marc-André Hamelin has been playing the work for many years and has become one of its greatest champions, though the fact that many other pianists have also taken it up confirms that the piece is becoming a twentieth-century classic. Similiar in idiom are the two North American Ballads that complete the recital; once again popular melodies are woven into a fabric which in Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues includes the stunning representation of the mechanical noise of the mill.
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
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Frederic Rzewski / The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
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EAC extraction logfile from 11. January 2010, 16:13
Frederic Rzewski / The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
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Also included the complete piano sheet in the rar, for those who'd like to follow the music with the notes, or for those who'd want to try to play it (very hard!).
PDF booklet and cover scan taken from Hyperion official website.
I was surprised when I didn't find it on the web. This is definitely one of the most amazing piano pieces of the XX century.