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Piano Works I: Allegro Vivace

Joachim Kühn

Composers
Couperin; J.S. Bach; Mozart
Released
2005
Label
ACT
Forces
Piano, Solo
Catalogue
ACT 9750-2

Allegro Vivace grew from a single day in a French studio, when Joachim Kühn recorded thirty-nine current favourites without intending to make an album and played each only once. From those performances he chose eleven that formed their own chronology, beginning with Couperin, Bach and Mozart, passing through Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, and arriving at Kühn’s own music. The result also opened ACT’s long-running Piano Works series: a solo recital in which several centuries of music become stages in one pianist’s development rather than separate repertories.

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The originalsCouperin; J.S. Bach; Mozart
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The cuts

The classical-derived cuts from this record, each with the classical work it came from.

  1. Pleinchant Du Premier Kyrie, en TailleCouperin: Messe pour les paroisses: Kyrie, ‘Plein chant du premier Kyrie, en taille’
  2. ChaconneJ.S. Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
  3. Konzert in A: AllegroMozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: I. Allegro
  4. Konzert in A: AdagioMozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: II. Adagio
  5. Konzert in A: RondoMozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: III. Rondo. Allegro