Roland Pöntinen

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Filmmusiken für Klavier aus Amarcord, E La Nave Va, Viskningar Och Rop; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Höstsonaten; Diva; Bagdad Cafe; Eyes Wide Shut; Au Revoir Les Enfants; The Pianist

Artists:: Roland Pöntinen
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2003
Item number:: 6827630
UPC/EAN:: 7318590013267
Release date:: 22.5.2006

Roland Pöntinen has a history of devising original recitals for BIS – Music for a Rainy Day (BIS-CD- 300) and Evening Bells (BIS-CD-1164) are only two of them. For Pianorama he has gone to the cinema for inspiration, and the result is as varied and imaginative as always.

From the very beginning – even during the era of the silent movie – music has been recognised as a major ingredient of the cinematic experience, and great filmmakers have been extremely painstaking in their choice of music. When selecting from existing music, directors have been particularly fond of using works for solo piano – maybe a subconscious harkening back to the piano player of the cinemas of the 1920s? Several such works have been brought together here, from films such as Autumn Sonata and Cries and Whispers (Bergman), Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick), The Pianist (Polanski) and Diva (J-J Beneix). Atmospheric in its own right, the music by Debussy, Chopin, Schubert, Bach and Ligeti becomes even more evocative when combined with often striking pictures. The great partnership of Federico Fellini and Nino Rota also features on the disc, with Pöntinen’s own improvisations on Rota’s themes for Amarcord, perhaps Fellini’s best loved film.

Roland Pöntinen has often been praised for his versatility and musical intelligence: ‘In Pöntinen's hands, Liszt's Christmas Tree lights up, blazing with fervour, intelligence and poetry’ (BIS-CD-1164, BBC Music Magazine) and ‘this performance – expansive and impassioned without self-indulgence – deserves a high place among current recommendations’ (BIS-CD-1417, Gramophone). These qualities make him the perfect exponent of this varied and atmospheric programme, which is accompanied by liner notes in the form of an interview with Pöntinen made by Nils Petter Sundgren, doyen of Swedish film critics.

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Improvisation über Themen von Nino Rota aus dem Film Amarcord

1 Roland Pöntinen: 1. (ohne Satzbezeichnung)
2 Roland Pöntinen: 2. (ohne Satzbezeichnung)
3 Roland Pöntinen: 3. (ohne Satzbezeichnung)

Petite Messe solennelle (Auszug)

4 Agnus Dei

5 Frederic Chopin: Mazurka Nr. 13 a-moll op. 17 Nr. 4

Auf verwachsenem Pfade (Auszug)

6 Leo Janácek: The Madonna of Frydek
7 Leo Janácek: The barn owl has not flown away

Préludes op. 28 Nr. 1-24 (Auszug)

8 Frederic Chopin: Nr. 2 (ohne Satzbezeichnung)

9 Roland Pöntinen: Improvisation über Promenade sentimentale von Vladimir Cosma

Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I BWV 846-869 (24 Präludien und Fugen) (Auszug)

10 Johann Sebastian Bach: Präludium Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 846

Musica ricercata (11 Stücke für Klavier) (Auszug)

11 György Ligeti: Nr. 2 Mesto, rigido e ceremoniale

12 Stefan Pöntinen: Cinema music

Préludes (12 Stücke für Klavier, Heft 1) (Auszug)

13 Claude Debussy: Des pas sur la neige

Suite bergamasque (Auszug)

14 Claude Debussy: Clair de lune

Moments musicaux op. 94 D 780 Nr. 1-6 (Auszug)

15 Franz Schubert: Nr. 2 As-Dur

16 Frederic Chopin: Nocturne Nr. 20 cis-moll op. posth. 72 Nr. 2
17 Roland Pöntinen: Rota Reminiscence (Improvisation über Themen von Nino Rota aus dem Film Amarcord)

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