Waar buiten de klassieke muziek de studio standaard als instrument gebruikt wordt, gebeurt dat niet wanneer pianowerken van Chopin vastgelegd worden. Merkwaardig, vonden Ott en Arnalds, die op IJsland bewust op zoek gingen naar licht ontstemde piano’s, afgeragde kroegexemplaren om zo in de studio de akoestiek manipuleren en vervormend een totaal nieuwe klankkleur aan enkele van Chopins meest geliefde werken toe te voegen.
The Chopin Project: Alice Sara Ott & Olafur Arnalds - Vinyl Edition
1. Verses
2. Piano Sonata No. 3: Largo
3. Nocturne in C Sharp Minor (ft. Mari Samuelsen)
4. Reminiscence
5. Nocturne in G Minor
6. Eyes Shut / Nocturne in C Minor
7. Written in Stone
8. Letters of a Traveller
9. Prélude in D Flat Major ("Raindrop")
Alice Sara Ott (piano) & Olafur Arnalds
The music of Frédéric Chopin has been recorded hundreds of times before. But never like this. The Chopin Project brings together award-winning young Icelandic pop/classical musician Ólafur Arnalds and the acclaimed German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott for an exciting new take on Chopin’s music. Arnalds chose a programme of Chopin works to create an emotional arc through the disc, and then composed linking sections for string quintet, piano and synthesizer based on the atmosphere and motifs of those pieces.
Tracks
Disc 1
1. Verses
2. Piano Sonata No. 3: Largo
3. Nocturne In C Sharp Minor
4. Reminiscence
5. Nocturne In G Minor
6. Eyes Shut - Nocturne In C Minor
7. Written In Stone
8. Letters Of A Traveller
9. Prélude In D Flat Major ("Raindrop"), Op. 28, No. 15
