Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

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This latest recording (there are a good few) is brilliantly in the spirit of the work, involving the player as it does in vocalising and improvising. Dazzling virtuosity. — Sunday Times, 10th January 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Jan 2010
Catalogue No: WER67302
Label: Wergo
Length: 64 minutes

Frederic Rzewski, Rzewski, Frederic: The People United Will Never Be Defeated

Work length1:04:45

$12.50

$17.50

Kai Schumacher

Theme 1

Track length1:38

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$1.40

Variations 1–6

Track length7:13

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$2.10

Variations 7–12

Track length7:44

$1.50

$2.10

Variations 13–18

Track length10:38

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$2.10

Variations 19–24

Track length7:00

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$2.10

Variations 25–30

Track length14:27

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$2.80

Variations 31–36

Track length8:19

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Cadenza

Track length4:00

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Theme 2

Track length3:46

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Rzewski studied with such names as Walter Piston, Roger Sessions and Randall Thompson. He studied composition with Milton Babbitt and the music of Richard Wagner with Oliver Strunk at Princeton University from 1958-60, where he also studied Greek literature and philosophy. In addition, he studied composition privately with Luigi Dallapiccola in Rome in 1960. As a pianist, he frequently performed with the flautist Severino Gazzelloni in the 1960s. He then co-founded with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum the improvisational and live electronic ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva, in Rome in 1966 and performed with it from 1966-71. Since then, he has been active as a pianist, primarily in performances of his own pieces and music by other contemporary composers, making an appearance at Huddersfield Festival in 2009.

The People United Will Never Be Defeated is based on the Chilean protest song, '¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!', written by Sergio Ortega a few months before Pinochet's military coup in September of 1973.

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10th January 2010

This latest recording (there are a good few) is brilliantly in the spirit of the work, involving the player as it does in vocalising and improvising. Dazzling virtuosity.

8th January 2010

Skillfully negotiated...a journey taking in a spectrum of stylistic modes.

18th February 2010

This new version from pianist Kai Schumacher rises to the challenge of its epic range of mood and huge technical difficulty. It’s a fine version

Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

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