Frederic Rzewski: Songs of Resurrection
Thomas Kotcheff (piano)
Kotcheff’s incisive articulation, his wide dynamic range, his acute sense of timing and characterisation and his keen awareness of bass lines not only penetrate Rzewski’s sound world to the...
Frederic Rzewski: Songs of Resurrection
Thomas Kotcheff (piano)
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Kotcheff’s incisive articulation, his wide dynamic range, his acute sense of timing and characterisation and his keen awareness of bass lines not only penetrate Rzewski’s sound world to the...
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*Premiere Recording* Never stop or falter, always play loud. Stay together as long as you can, but if you get lost, stay lost. Do not try to find your way back into the fold. Thats the instruction legendary composer Frederic Rzewski gave for his 1968 piece Les Moutons de Panurge. Songs of Insurrection (2016) is Rzewskis sequel to his masterwork "The People United Will Never Be Defeated". The piece is presented here in its first recording by composer/pianist Thomas Kotcheff - member of piano spheres and the virtuosic piano duo HOCKET - alongside essays reflecting on the current moment, and photographs from protests taking place across the US. With pieces including Die Moorsoldaten (The Song of the Deported) written by prisoners of the Brgermoor concentration camp, American civil rights hymn Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, and Oh Bird, Oh Bird, Oh Roller from the Korean Peasant Rebellion of Donghak, Songs of Insurrection transcends the world of contemporary music and takes you on a journey through uprising.
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- Thomas Kotcheff (soloist)
Awards and reviews
March 2021
Kotcheff’s incisive articulation, his wide dynamic range, his acute sense of timing and characterisation and his keen awareness of bass lines not only penetrate Rzewski’s sound world to the point of clairvoyance but also mirror Rzewski’s own exceptional pianism. The robust yet well-detailed engineering adds further distinction to a major release of an important work by a most sympathetic interpreter whom I look forward to hearing again soon, in any repertoire.
8th November 2020
The US pianist Kotcheff is assuredly on top of the challenge.
