Uri Caine Ensemble - The Goldberg Variations (2000)

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Artist: Uri Caine, Uri Caine Ensemble
Title: The Goldberg Variations
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Winter and Winter
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:33:51
Total Size: 836 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Aria (01:48)
2. Variation 1 (01:03)
3. Variation 2 (00:51)
4. The Introitus Variation (03:40)
5. The Dig It Variation (02:20)
6. Logic's Invention (00:38)
7. The Stuttering Variation (02:29)
8. Variation 3, Canon At The Unison (01:12)
9. The Hot Six Variation (02:43)
10. Variation 5 [+8] (01:26)
11. Rachmaninoff (01:52)
12. The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Variation (03:57)
13. Vivaldi (00:50)
14. Variation For Saxophone & Piano (02:47)
15. Variation 4 (01:07)
16. The Waltz Variation (01:01)
17. The Carol Variation (02:35)
18. Variation 6, Canon At The 2nd (00:42)
19. The Stomp Variation (02:26)
20. The Nobody Knows Variation (03:50)
21. Canon At The 3rd In 3/4 (02:38)
22. Variation 7, Gigue (01:20)
23. Variation 9, Canon At The 3rd (01:41)
24. Variation 10, Fughetta (01:35)
25. Variation 11 (01:57)
26. Variation For Violin & Piano (02:11)
27. Variation 12, Canon At The 4th (01:19)
28. Variation 13 (02:24)
29. The Hallelujah Variation (01:46)
30. The Verdi Piano Duet Variation (01:28)
31. Luther's Nightmare Variation (02:17)
32. Canon At The 6th In 6/4 (01:43)
33. The Jaybird Lounge Variation (02:33)
34. Variation 14 (00:43)
35. Variation 15, Canon At The 5th (02:05)
36. The Contrapunto Variation (04:25)
37. Variation For Piano Solo No. 1 (00:56)
38. Canon At The 5th In 5/4 (02:34)
39. The Chorale Variation (01:12)

Disc 2

1. Variation 16 [Overture] (01:47)
2. Don's Variation (02:32)
3. Variation For Vinicius (04:57)
4. Olive's Remix (00:40)
5. The »I Poem« Variation [Fughetta For 4 Voices] (02:43)
6. Variation 17 (00:59)
7. Variation 18, Canon At The 6th (01:48)
8. Mozart (01:28)
9. Canon At The 7th In 7/4 (01:40)
10. The Minimal Variation (03:28)
11. The Tango Variation (01:50)
12. The Boxy Variation (05:05)
13. Variation 19 (02:11)
14. Variation 21, Canon At The 7th (01:22)
15. The Wedding March Variation [For Ralph & Liz] (01:52)
16. Variation 22 (01:41)
17. Variation For Gamba Quartet (01:59)
18. Canon At The 4th In 4/4 (03:12)
19. Variation For Piano Solo No. 2 (03:26)
20. Variation On B-A-C-H (02:30)
21. Variation For Cello Solo (02:34)
22. Händel (00:34)
23. Variation 23 (01:00)
24. Variation 25 (05:22)
25. Variation 26 (01:01)
26. Variation 29 (01:37)
27. Variation 30 Quodlibet (00:50)
28. Variation 30 Quodlibet / The Drinking Party (01:42)
29. Logic's Organ Prelude (00:48)
30. Uri's Organ Prelude (05:15)
31. The Blessing Variation (04:41)
32. Aria (01:54)
33. The Eternal Variation (02:43)

In the 21st century, it's easy to take technology for granted and forget that in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 1685, d. 1750), there were no cars, busses, airplanes, TVs, radios, movies, tape recorders, electric lights, or computers. People used candles to light their homes, and horses were the fastest way to get around. There were excellent plays and opinionated theater critics to review them, but no cameras to film the actors and actresses. Recording technology had yet to be invented, so the only way to hear classical musicians was to hear them performing live. Although the classical artists of Bach's time could not be recorded, they left behind their compositions, and today's classical musicians continue to keep them alive. There is most certainly a need for classical traditionalists, who give us the opportunity to hear exactly what Bach wrote. But there is also a place for risk-takers who interpret Bach's pieces instead of playing them note for note. Uri Caine is such a risk-taker, and this two-CD set finds the Philadelphia-born pianist taking more than his share of liberties with Bach's "Goldberg Variations." Hardly a classical purist, Caine combines Bach's music with a variety of jazz styles (everything from hard bop to Dixieland to bossa nova) as well as gospel, ragtime, salsa, tango, and traditional Jewish music. Occasionally, this double-CD comes across as iconoclasm for the sake of iconoclasm; things become forced and unnatural when Caine employs DJs and unsuccessfully tries to convince us that hip-hop, electronica, and rave music can be relevant to Bach. But most of the time, his experimentation pays off handsomely. Goldberg Variations isn't for everyone; classical purists, in fact, will want to avoid it. But those who have very eclectic tastes in music will find that this 1999/2000 project, although not perfect, is highly imaginative and even fascinating. © Alex Henderson

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