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[Uri Caine. © Robert Lewis] Strange brother is made possible again by the boldness of producer Stefan Winter: Uri Caine, a man renowned in the world of jazz and its environs, a champion of some form of merging, through a fertile personal creativity, modernity with the music of the great classical masters (Bach their albums on , Mozart, Beethoven , Wagner, Verdi or Mahler well as guarantee ) joined the Arditti Quartet , all the more fiercely connected to the conceptual and experimental avant-garde the last thirty years.

[Paradise-Spring. Takayanagi Mamiko]

Philadelphia pianist through the mirror and jumps decided to abstraction, invoking for it the concept, as venerable and ancient of musical whim, cast off from the explicit references to other music , other arts, although the CD each of the twelve whims of the composer is linked to a painting by Japanese artist Mamiko Takayanagi (Kyoto, 1976), without anywhere to inform us whether the paintings were inspired or simple music producer illustrator resource CD, but more seem the latter.

rhythmic echoes are here linked to the world of jazz, tune games and melodies that surprise question runs and cross embedding this work in the path of Caine, but the language is atonal and dissonant, the curl of the arcs pointing to the ground, as usually Expressionist, the Arditti. Are stated above, twelve caprices for piano and classical string quartet, which support the gloss whimsical (the titles are the canvas):

[Winter song. Mamiko Takyanagi]

Capricho 1 Paradise - Spring . The scales frenetic rhythms of the piano as a basis cozy stubborn to the crossfire of the quartet. Paradise are the others. Capricho 2

Winter song. Chirping of birds are diluted among discordant bursts of strings. Capricho 3

Ocean. A wavy scherzo to Bartók. Capricho

4 Summer time. The upper register of the violins, the notes taken, the flies swarming as Vivaldi in the torpor of the afternoon, working out at a mock tango. Capricho 5

Sunshine. The piano just tap the whirlwind incessant bows. Capricho

6 Midnight. Romantic melodies the quartet Schubertian exhale as prayer and the piano key notes in film.

[Fallen Leaf. Mamiko Takayangi]

Capricho 7 Fallen leaf. The shadow of Bartók and Viennese Expressionism is long. Capricho

8 Shooting star. An air of Anglo fun permeates everything. Capricho

9 Carrousel. The keyboard ends involved in the vortex of arcs that trace arabesques Expressionists in the air. Capricho 10

Glitter. Among pointillist piano sketches, snippets of melody that is up from the cello and walk spasmodically throughout the quartet's sound recording. Capricho 11

Sound to spring. Nostalgic song of the rope becomes a whispering circumstantial. The piano, agile and restless, dragged into the melancholy ending.

Capricho 12 Dance with the wind sound . Is this a dance or a coven?

[ Diario de Sevilla. 19/02/2011 ]

URI CAINE (1956): TWELVE CAPRICE
Uri Caine, Arditti Quartet piano

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WINTER & WINTER 910 171-2 ( Diverdi ) [61'56'']
Recording: June 2009


Caine: Capricho n º 7 . [6'47''] Caine. Arditti Quartet