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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
With little more than a piano and some minor but
highly atmospheric augmentation from a celeste
and reed organ, German-born composer Nils Frahm
spins a diaphanous and enchanting web of sound.
There are three compositions in the collection.
The first, 'Ambre' is an elegant, gently rolling piece,
whose piano part is an exquisite autumnal melody subtly
enhanced with half-heard overtones from the celeste. Magical.
The second 'Nue', after a shimmering opening we encounter
the reed organ for the first time. Its plaintive song is not unlike
an old weatherbeaten voice from the sea; the accompaniment
perhaps the sun reflecting on the turning waves.
Two thirds of the way in and the organ strikes up a half-hearted
attempt at a spirited dance. Left to its own devices it eventually
spirals away into oblivion. A perfectly constructed little drama.
The third and longest piece 'Tristana' is a laconic series of
variations for all three instruments. Rising and falling so
delicately both in tempo or dynamic structure that its gentle
forward movement would be unlikely to lift a leaf from the ground.
The reed organ occasionally delivers a statement of deep foreboding,
like a dark cloud passing over the landscape.
A beautifully sustained vision.
'Wintermusik' is a simply stunning listening experience.
Essential.
highly atmospheric augmentation from a celeste
and reed organ, German-born composer Nils Frahm
spins a diaphanous and enchanting web of sound.
There are three compositions in the collection.
The first, 'Ambre' is an elegant, gently rolling piece,
whose piano part is an exquisite autumnal melody subtly
enhanced with half-heard overtones from the celeste. Magical.
The second 'Nue', after a shimmering opening we encounter
the reed organ for the first time. Its plaintive song is not unlike
an old weatherbeaten voice from the sea; the accompaniment
perhaps the sun reflecting on the turning waves.
Two thirds of the way in and the organ strikes up a half-hearted
attempt at a spirited dance. Left to its own devices it eventually
spirals away into oblivion. A perfectly constructed little drama.
The third and longest piece 'Tristana' is a laconic series of
variations for all three instruments. Rising and falling so
delicately both in tempo or dynamic structure that its gentle
forward movement would be unlikely to lift a leaf from the ground.
The reed organ occasionally delivers a statement of deep foreboding,
like a dark cloud passing over the landscape.
A beautifully sustained vision.
'Wintermusik' is a simply stunning listening experience.
Essential.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
this is music you can listen to endlessly, never bores, always soothes. all piano tracks fall in the category new and eternal. amazing music.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Quite simply exquisitely beautiful
20 Mar 2011
Format:Audio CD
Originally compiled and produced as a Christmas gift for family and friends, Wintermusik is certainly meant to be exquisitely beautiful, but it does not sound like it wants to be a crowd pleaser. Nils Frahm plays three instruments - piano, celesta, reed organ - with beguiling simplicity. Dynamics are pp throughout, tempo is steady and slow start to finish. This is a mood study, mere texture and harmony. It is the musical equivalent of a Kertesz picture: a modest, plain, but subtle and magical slice of life as it slips day after day through our fingers. If Frahm can do this when he is 28, what will he be able to offer at 82? I am very sorry I won't be around to hear it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Delightfully Surprising
21 May 2011
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was introduced to German pianist Nils Frahm by Pandora, who played me tracks from Wintermusik in both my Penguin Cafe Orchestra station and my Nino Rota station. Immediately the music strikes the ear as original, intelligent, musically sophisticated and unpretentious. Piano, celeste and reed organ combine in gentle rolling compositions which recall Rota or PCO, but also Jann Tiersen, Eberhard Weber, John Adams or Arvo Pärt. The music seems always to be flowing toward a tonic resolution but never quite reaching it. It is not as relentlessly metronomic as Steve Reich or Philip Glass, and so seems a lot less contrived.
Little touches like tapping the soundbox, or allowing his breathing noises to remain, give a human and intimate feeling.
I've heard enough music in my life to have become very jaded about ever hearing anything new that would surprise and delight me. Frahm surprised and delighted me.
Little touches like tapping the soundbox, or allowing his breathing noises to remain, give a human and intimate feeling.
I've heard enough music in my life to have become very jaded about ever hearing anything new that would surprise and delight me. Frahm surprised and delighted me.
Great Recording
28 Nov 2011
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Although the pieces are very similar and use the same tone to drive them along, the mood is intoxicating and this 30 minute recording makes time simply disappear. Minimalist and engrossing, exactly what I like in music.
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