Description
Title: Beethoven Invents Jazz / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Erato
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5099907092329
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2011-11-15
Number of Discs: 1
Ludwig van Beethoven invented Jazz. That statement might seem enough to provoke a paroxysm from a musicologist, but, with a passage in his final piano sonata, Beethoven created the first example of pure swing in the history of music. We might also wonder how the serious-minded Johannes Brahms could open a sonata movement with a walking bass blues that smacks of the Mississippi Delta, or how Modest Mussorgsky, in his “”Pictures at an Exhibition,”” foreshadows Quincy Jones. This album makes these extraordinary connections before exploring the profound influence of jazz on composers of the 20th century, from Maurice Ravel to Leonard Bernstein.
Tracks:
1.1 Ariatta (Excerpt)
1.2 Adagio Affetuoso (Excerpt)
1.3 Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
1.4 Golliwogg”s Cake-Walk
1.5 La Plus Que Lente
1.6 Blues
1.7 Allegretto Moderato
1.8 113. Bulgarian Rhythm
1.9 Sebes
1.10 Brazileira
1.11 (Excerpt)
1.12 Kanonen-Song
1.13 (Excerpt)
1.14 I Got Rhythm
1.15 Prelude
1.16 Mambo
1.17 Divertimento: Blues
1.18 Allegro Non Troppo
1.19 Jazzartistrix
1.20 Caprice No. 24
