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Background: Marc-André Hamelin's CD 'in a state of jazz' turns his attention to the music of Kapustin, Antheil, Gulda and Weissenberg - all composers who felt keenly that there was a fundamental desire on the part of the concert-going public to hear something different. This wonderful disc is full of surprises.

Hamelin writes in his entertaining yet scholarly liner notes, 'There is no jazz in this recording. At least not in the traditional sense … There is much to be enjoyed here, and much to be amazed by'.

CATALOGUE NR: CDA67656
RECORD LABEL: Hyperion
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 11.99 including VAT, or £ 10.20 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2008

COMPOSER: Friedrich Gulda  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Marc-Andre Hamelin - in a state of jazz
TRACKS: Play Piano Play : Exercise No.1 (Friedrich Gulda). Sonata No.2 op.54 (Nikolai Kapustin). Play Piano Play : Exercise No.4 (Friedrich Gulda). Sonate en etat de jazz : Evocation d'un tango / Reminiscence d’un charleston / Reflets d’un blues / Provocation de samba (Alexis Weissenberg). Play Piano Play : Exercise No.5 (Friedrich Gulda). Prelude and Fugue (Friedrich Gulda). Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet : Coin de rue / Vous oubliez votre cheval / En Avril a Paris / Boum! / Vous qui passez sans me voir / Menilmontant (Alexis Weissenberg). Jazz Sonata (George Antheil).
ARTISTS: Marc-Andre Hamelin      

- May-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'his absolute technical mastery is of course expected; less so is the idiomatic way he slips into jazzman mode. Yet there's always the sense of both genres and of an entirely new territory where more or less anything goes'

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