Barraqu?, Jean
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Composer: Jean BarraquePerformer: Herbert Henck
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Sonate pour piano: Tres rapide
- Sonate pour piano: Lent
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Free Music Review: austere and rewarding
Hit: 5 Stars
The word that keeps coming to mind with this piece is "uncompromising." It is a 45-minute work that doesn't exhibit any standard form or progression of events, or, for that matter, any traditional sense of pianism. The texture is strictly single notes that accrue or disintegrate in varying densities.
What Barraque can express in this limited world is impressive. Not self-indulgent formula, the Sonata is a fearless, emphatic statement of belief not only the power of the composer's musical ideas but in the power of music.
It always struck me as incredible that the austere aesthetic statement of the Sonata makes for Barraque's "opus one". Other pieces like Sequence or the Concerto are much more user friendly (but are no less powerfully expressive). Perhaps that makes the Sonata even more unique.
Herbert Henck attacks the piece with abandon. This is the recording of the sonata to get (avoid the Litwin interpretation on CPO).
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