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playing gershwin

Iiro Rantala

playing gershwin

Format: CD
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427989321
Catnr: ACT 98932
Release date: 07 February 2020
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Label
ACT music
UPC
0614427989321
Catalogue number
ACT 98932
Release date
07 February 2020

"Few virtuoso pianists are so well versed in both classical music and jazz."

Rootstime, 27-2-2020
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About the album

Their first encounter during Bremen’s Jazzahead festival in 2017 was an immediate meeting of minds: Iiro Rantala and The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen are bound by the same inquisitiveness, openness and ability to excite people interested in a wide range of different musical genres. Following their first live album “Mozart, Lennon, Bernstein” together (January 2018), they are now releasing “playing Gershwin” on which they embark on new musical adventures. With arrangements written specially for this album, the Finnish jazz pianist and the world-class orchestra transcend musical boundaries and build bridges at the highest artistic level – fascinating, masterly, unique!

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Iiro Rantala (piano)

Iiro Rantala is 'a natural phenomenon on keys' (German jazz magazine Jazzthing); an all-rounder of whom New York-based pianist and arranger Gil Goldstein quite rightly said: 'Iiro Rantala is a pianistic sensation who makes the strongest case I know to believe in reincarnation, because his pianistic technique and musical sensitivity speak of depths that appear impossible to have been achieved in this lifetime alone'. Up to now, Rantala was mainly associated with the trio Töykeät, one of the weirdest, funniest and most visionary piano trios in international jazz. He sounded out all the possibilities of this formation: Sometimes playing the energetic lion on keys, sometimes the sensitive romantic or the burlesque clown. His playing blasted away all stylistic boundaries and...
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Iiro Rantala is "a natural phenomenon on keys" (German jazz magazine Jazzthing); an all-rounder of whom New York-based pianist and arranger Gil Goldstein quite rightly said: "Iiro Rantala is a pianistic sensation who makes the strongest case I know to believe in reincarnation, because his pianistic technique and musical sensitivity speak of depths that appear impossible to have been achieved in this lifetime alone". Up to now, Rantala was mainly associated with the trio Töykeät, one of the weirdest, funniest and most visionary piano trios in international jazz. He sounded out all the possibilities of this formation: Sometimes playing the energetic lion on keys, sometimes the sensitive romantic or the burlesque clown. His playing blasted away all stylistic boundaries and was as uncompromised as it was entertaining, but kept together by a magical triangle: his boundless technical ability and his unmistakeable senses of humour and style.
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Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

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Few virtuoso pianists are so well versed in both classical music and jazz.
Rootstime, 27-2-2020

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