Album guide
Improvisational Three
- Composer
- Ravel
- Released
- 2008
- Label
- Caprice Records
- Forces
- Piano, Solo
- Personnel
- Jacob Karlzon piano
Jacob Karlzon entered Stockholm’s Nybrokajen 11 at night with a hand-picked Steinway D and only the producer-engineer for company. Under the rules of Caprice’s Improvisational series, he learnt only just before the session that his subject would be Ravel.
Seven Ravel pieces sit among three free improvisations. Those are numbered II, IV and III; what became of the first improvisation is never explained.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Prelude (Arr. J. Karlzon)Prelude in A minor, M. 65 (1913), for piano
- Menuet antique (Arr. J. Karlzon)Menuet antique, M. 7 (1895), for piano
- Gaspard de la nuit: II. Le gibet (Arr. J. Karlzon)Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet
- Free Improvisation IIOriginal composition by Jacob Karlzon
- Valses nobles et sentimentales: II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense (Arr. J. Karlzon)Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
- Bolero (Arr. J. Karlzon)Boléro, M. 81
- Alborada del gracioso (Arr. J. Karlzon)Miroirs, M. 43: IV. Alborada del gracioso
- Free Improvisation IVOriginal composition by Jacob Karlzon
- Free Improvisation IIIOriginal composition by Jacob Karlzon
- Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (Arr. J. Karlzon)Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, M. 58