Jürg Frey - Les Signes Passagers (lossless)

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'Les signes passagers' is an album of seven pieces for solo fortepiano written by Jürg Frey in 2021, commissioned by the Amsterdam-based pianist Keiko Shichijo. It was premiered by Shichijo on February 5, 2022 at the Concertgebouw Brugge during the SLOW Festival. In the same year, Shichijo performed the piece again at the November Music 2022 and later recorded it for this album in April 2023 at the Concertgebouw Brugge in the presence of the composer.


(Digital download includes PDF sleeve with liner notes.)


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​TRACK LIST

Les signes passagers (for fortepiano)   (2021)   
(50:00)
 
I.    Leger et silencieux                               (5:56)
II.   Avec sonorité, mais très doux         (4:16)
III.  Lumineux et calme                              (8:31)
IV.  Très calme                                              (5:46)
V.   Au lointain                                               (2:45)
VI.  Tendre et monotone                        (17:58)
VII. Discrète et loin                                     (2:58
CREDITS

composition by Jürg Frey

Keiko Shichijo – fortepiano

Fortepiano: Replica after Anton Walter (ca.1792), built by Paul McNulty in 1995, from Stanley Hoogland collection (FF-g3)

recorded by Wouter Boasson at Concertgebouw Brugge in Brugge, Belgium on 3-4 April 2023
tuning by Hans Kramer
edited by Mirek Coutigny
postproduction by Fabio Oehrli (tonlabor)

cover drawing by Jürg Frey
CD designed and produced by Yuko Zama
produced by Keiko Shichijo, Mirek Coutigny, and Jürg Frey

special thanks to Erik Boasson

This CD recording was made possible by the generous support of Concertgebouw Brugge, whose building offers a beautiful acoustic for music making and inspiring atmosphere for all the artists.​
 
p+c 2023 elsewhere music
www.elsewheremusic.net
 
Jürg Frey’s music is published by Edition Wandelweiser.
www.wandelweiser.de
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'Les signes passagers' is an album of seven pieces for solo fortepiano written by Jürg Frey in 2021, commissioned by the Amsterdam-based pianist Keiko Shichijo. It was premiered by Shichijo on February 5, 2022 at the Concertgebouw Brugge during the SLOW Festival. In the same year, Shichijo performed the piece again at the November Music 2022 and later recorded it for this album in April 2023 at the Concertgebouw Brugge in the presence of the composer.
 
“As a listener, I have experienced with music played on early piano instruments for many years. And it has become more and more clear to me how delicate the influence of the sound of the instrument is on the inspiration of the composer.
 
If the modern piano tries to get a constant brilliance over the whole keyboard, in the fortepiano there are worlds between the middle, the high and the low register. The whole construction of the instrument is so subtle, and every movement, the slightest change in registers and density of chords immediately opens a variety of colors, new perspectives and emotions.” – Jürg Frey
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*Q&A with Jürg Frey and Keiko Shichijo about Les Signes Passagers and fortepiano

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*Listed in The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2023 by Peter Margasak
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