Rembrandt Frerichs, Alma Quartet, Dominic Seldis & Vinsent Planjer - Frerichs: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2022) [24/96]

Together with the Alma Quartet (all strings of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra), double bassist Dominic Seldis and his regular percussionist Vinsent Planjer, Frerichs took an entirely new and unexpected path. He brought the improvisational element back into classical music: a practice that was common in the time of Mozart and Beethoven. Composers then wrote out their orchestral parts and came up with their solo parts during the performance. Frerichs follows this pattern in his first two piano concertos. He uses a 'black page' with prescribed notes for the strings and allows himself to be inspired by the moment from a 'white page' together with percussionist Planjer. The musical imagination is given free rein and because of this unusual starting point, each performance will be different.

If you taste anything in Frerichs' piano concertos, it's a freshness and spirit of renewal, like we found in the pioneers from the beginning of the last century: Ravel, Debussy, Gershwin, Bartok and Strawinsky. Of course, we also hear many elements from jazz, such as an infectious sense of timing and groove and the linear improvisations of the legendary Lennie Tristano. Frerichs succeeds convincingly in dissolving the boundaries between classical and improvised music. His music has a unique drive in which we again feel the authentic struggle between soloist and orchestra.

Tracklist:
01. Piano concerto No. 1: I. Textures and registers
02. Piano concerto No. 1: II. Cadenza I
03. Piano concerto No. 1: III. Bohemia theme
04. Piano concerto No. 1: IV. Cadenza II
05. Piano concerto No. 1: V. Elasticity
06. Piano concerto No. 1: VI. A wind sweeps us through the world
07. Piano concerto No. 1: VII. Musique au font
08. Piano concerto No. 1: VIII. Blue pencilled outlines
09. Piano concerto No. 2 "Eternal variating alternations": I. 1st Movement
10. Piano concerto No. 2 "Eternal variating alternations": II. 2nd Movement
11. Piano concerto No. 2 "Eternal variating alternations": III. 3rd Movement
12. Piano concerto No. 2 "Eternal variating alternations": IV. 4th Movement


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