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Jacques Loussier - Baroque favorites (2001)

Pianist/composer Jacques Loussier has been swinging the classics for more than four decades now—ever since he formed the Play Bach Trio in the late ‘50s, when the union of his classical background with his interest in jazz created a remarkable success story. The trio toured extensively, selling over six million albums in fifteen years, and then disbanded.

For his latest Telarc project, Baroque Favorites (CD-83516), Loussier and his talented partners—bassist Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac and drummer Andre Arpino—have tackled some of today’s most widely heard and popular Baroque classics. And therein, according to Loussier, lay the challenge—to maintain the essence of the music and still bring something new to his arrangements. "These pieces are so well known, and several of them are very simple," he says, referring especially to the enormously popular Canon in D by Pachelbel and the Adagio for Strings by Albinoni. "The spirit of each piece had to be kept. For every piece, one must find an idea and a solution. I may have lots of choices—lots of ideas—but only one will be the left one, the one that will be in good taste, and maintain the integrity of the original score."

Many of these works were originally scored for strings, and translating the sound of a small string orchestra to piano, bass and drums presented real hurdles. "The sound of the piano is shorter and more percussive than the strings," says Loussier. "I had to find ways to work around that in these pieces." The repetitive structure of the Pachelbel allows Loussier and his virtuosic bass player, de Segonzac, to trade the melody and bass lines in a delicious interplay of sounds and ideas. In the Albinoni, similarly constructed with a repetitive harmonic framework, Arpino provides a lively beat in the central section that tempts Loussier to some sassy improvisation.

Performers:

Jacques Loussier - piano

Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac - bass

Andre Arpino - drums

Tracks:

George Frideric Handel: Sarabande and Variations from Suite No. 11

1. Theme and Variation No. 1

2. Variation No. 2

3. Variation No. 3

4. Variation No. 4

5. Marin Marais: La sonnerie de Sainte-Genevieve du Mont

6. Scarlatti: Sonata No. 33 in B minor

7. Scarlatti: Sonata No. 32 in F-sharp minor

8. Handel: Largo (from Xerxes)

9. Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D major

Alessandro Marcello: Concerto in D Minor for Oboe

10. I. Andante spiccato

11. II. Adagio

12. III. Presto

13. Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio

Handel: Concerto in F Major for Organ

14. I. Larghetto

15. II. Allegro

16. III. Andante

17. IV. Larghetto

18. V. Allegro

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