Loose Cuts
Jazz Adagio
- Composers
- Mozart; Khachaturian; Mompou; J.S. Bach; Scriabin
- Released
- 2009
- Label
- Venus Records
- Forces
- piano; solo
- Catalogue
- VHCD-1024
Beirach’s solo-piano record opens and closes with Mozart, turning the K. 488 Adagio into a frame around music by Mompou, Chopin, Bernstein and a run of standards. The quiet Mompou piece is especially characteristic of Beirach, who had already devoted a trio album to the Catalan composer’s inward-looking piano music.
Hear both
The classical side carries the source works these cuts came from. The jazz side carries the cuts themselves. Each player holds what is available, and they need not match.
The originalsMozart; Khachaturian; Mompou; J.S. Bach; Scriabin
Jazzed up6 cuts
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The cuts
The classical-derived cuts from this record, each with the classical work it came from.
- Adagio~Piano Concerto In A Minor KV488Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488: II. Adagio
- Children’s Song No.1Khachaturian: A Little Song. Andantino, from Pictures of Childhood (Children’s Album, Book 1), Op. 62 No. 1
- Musica Callada No.22Mompou: Musica callada, Book III, No. 22
- Short Prelude No.4J.S. Bach: Little Prelude No. 4 in D major, BWV 936, from the Six Little Preludes
- Prelude No.4Scriabin: Prelude in E-flat minor, Op. 16 No. 4
- Adagio RepriseMozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488: II. Adagio