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Saturday, December 25, 2004
Rudolf Friml Piano Works
height= Rudolf Friml was the Andrew Lloyd Webber of early musicals, penning such megahits as The Vagabond King and Rose Marie, which gave us the unforgettable "Indian Love Call," among other gems. He was also a former student of Dvorak and a piano accompanist to Czech violinist Jan Kubelik and he tossed off sophisticated light classical music for the piano as a kind of sideline to his more lucrative ventures. By the time he died in 1972, a forgotten, if wealthy, figure, his musicals had become dated to the point of high camp and his piano minatures were largely lost. For pianist Sara Davis Buechner, who has traveled the emigre composer route before with her 1999 recording of piano works by film composer Miklós Rózsa, finding sheet music for Friml's compositions turned out to be half the challenge. We should all be thankful that she persevered. This is one of the most charming CDs of the year and one you can play a hundred times and always find new delights.
posted by Jerry Bowles 8:03 PM

Stephan Micus, Life, ECM
Master musician and composer Stephan Micus continues to push his exploration and assimilation of music and musical instruments from all over the world, further and further. Here he sets a Zen Buddhist koan or parable about about one of life's eternal quest within a riddle. Or is it a riddle within a parable? Anyway, this touching story is set to a program of compositions on Micus' sixteenth CD for ECM.

Micus' sound evokes the presence of some of the great musical traditions of the world but in listening closely you realize that he is using instruments that have rarely, if ever, been combined. He learns and assimilates his craft from master musicians in various lands and cultures and then takes the knowledge he has acquired and expounds upon it to construct an expression that is both unique and seems to come from some universal ethereal tradition. It is music unlike any other but it seems very natural and traditional. (See Mitchell Feldman's notes on Life here and my interview with Micus for Sequenza21 here. --DHG
posted by Jerry Bowles 5:19 PM


 


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