c.1300-c.2000 (2018)
performed by
Jeremy Denk (piano)
composed by
Arnold Schoenberg, Carlo Gesualdo, Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi, Clément Janequin, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay, György Ligeti, Henry Purcell, Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass
American pianist Jeremy Denk is known for unusual programs that juxtapose wildly different kinds of music, but nothing he has done before approaches the novelty of c.1300-c.2000, which is exactly what it sounds like: a survey of seven centuries of music, played on the piano. It's hard to say what Denk is up to here. The earlier pieces are not keyboard transcriptions but simple arrangements of pieces of medieval and Renaissance polyphony, carefully rendered versions of what a music history teacher might play during a class ...
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American pianist Jeremy Denk is known for unusual programs that juxtapose wildly different kinds of music, but nothing he has done before approaches the novelty of c.1300-c.2000, which is exactly what it sounds like: a survey of seven centuries of music, played on the piano. It's hard to say what Denk is up to here. The earlier pieces are not keyboard transcriptions but simple arrangements of pieces of medieval and Renaissance polyphony, carefully rendered versions of what a music history teacher might play during a class to illustrate the various styles. Then, at the beginning of the second disc in the physical release, Denk shifts gears into actual piano music. However, even here, his method is not really clear: Mozart is represented by the slow movement of the "easy" Piano Sonata in C major, K. 545, but that's followed by the mighty opening movement of Beethoven's final sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Denk says of the first part of the program that "I felt it was essential to...
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- Doulz amis, oy mon compleint, ballade for 2 voices
- Tristre plaisir et douleureuse joie, rondeau for 3 voices, R. 45
- Missa prolationum, for 4 voices: Kyrie - Christe eleison
- Franc cuer gentil, sur toutes gracieuse, rondeau for 3 voices
- Missa "Pange Lingua", for 4 parts: Kyrie
- Au joly jeu du pousse avant, chanson for 4 voices, M. 1/12
- Fantasia (Voluntary for my Lady Neville), for keyboard in G major, MB 61
- O dolce mio tesoro, madrigal for 5 voices (Book 6), W. 6/37
- Zefiro Torna, madrigal for 2 tenors and continuo (from Book 9 & Scherzi musicali), SV 251
- Ground for harpsichord in C minor (from "Ye tuneful muses" Z344/11), ZT 681
- Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, K. 551 (L. 396)
- Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903 (BC L34)
- Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major ("Sonata semplice") K. 545: II. Andante
- Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111: I. Maestoso; Allegro con brio ed appassionato
- Fantasiestück ("In der Nacht"), for piano, Op. 12/5
- Preludes (24) for piano, Op. 28, CT. 166-189: Preludes No. 1 in C major & No. 2 in A minor
- Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde, transcription for piano, S. 447 (LW A239) (after Wagner)
- Intermezzo for piano in B minor, Op. 119/1
- Pieces (3) for piano, Op. 11: No. 1, Mässige Viertel
- Reflets dans l'eau, for piano, L. 105/1 (110/1)
- Piano-Rag-Music, for piano
- Klavierstück I, for piano
- Etudes for piano, Vol. 1: Etude No. 2
- Etudes, Book 1 No. 6 ("Automne à Varsovie"), for piano
- Tristre plaisir et douleureuse joie, rondeau for 3 voices, R. 45
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