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| 1. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Thema: With Determination | |||
| 2. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 1: Weaving; Delicate But Firm | |||
| 3. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 2: With Firmness | |||
| 4. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 3: Slightly Slower, With Expressive Nuances | |||
| 5. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 4: Marcato | |||
| 6. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 5: Dreamlike, Frozen | |||
| 7. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 6: Same Tempo As Beginning | |||
| 8. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 7: Tempo (Lightly, Impatiently) | |||
| 9. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 8: With Agility; Not Too Much Pedal; Crisp | |||
| 10. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 9: Evenly | |||
| 11. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 10: Comodo, Recklessly | |||
| 12. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 11: Temp I. Like Fragments Of An Absent Melody - In Strict Time | |||
| 13. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 12 | |||
| 14. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 13: Tempo = 72 | |||
| 15. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 14: A Bit Faster, Optimistically | |||
| 16. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 15: Flexible, Like An Improvisation | |||
| 17. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 16: Same Tempo As Preceding, With Fuctuations; Much Pedal | |||
| 18. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 17: LH Strictly - RH Freely, Roughly As In Space | |||
| 19. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 18 | |||
| 20. The People United Will Never Be Defeated!: Variation 19: With Energy | |||
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(The) People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Composed by Frederic Rzewski
with Marc-André Hamelin
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(4) North American Ballads
Composed by Frederic Rzewski
with Marc-André Hamelin
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Frederic Rzewski's homage to Latin American liberation struggles is well represented, with stunning interpretations by such luminaries as Stephen Drury and Ursula Oppens prior to this version by Marc-André Hamelin. Drury's version might well be the high-water mark, in part because New Albion Records wisely included a rousing 1975 live version of the original Sergio Ortega liberation anthem with Quilapayun and thousands of singers to give the piano performance context. But comparing two versions of these 36 variations on the song's theme is fraught, given Rzewski's heavily improvisational performance instructions (e.g., to play variation 11 "like fragments of an absent melody--in strict time," variation 27 "Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression"). Hamelin takes the piece more strictly and in more clearly virtuosic terms than Drury, just as he's taken Scriabin and Medtner. He starts off stronger and paces himself differently, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but always more deliberately. People is a work prone to radically different interpretations, and while it's easy to compare Hamelin and Drury, it's musically better to take each on its own. It's folksy, rootsy music that gets microtonal in fragments and deconstructs the melody so thoroughly that it'll be 36 times lovelier when you're done listening. The added bonus of Hamelin's version is the inclusion of the warm "Down by the Riverside" and "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues", both given the theme-restatement-improvisation processing treatment that marks Rzewski's unparalleled work in traditional folk music. --Andrew Bartlett
Frederic Rzewski's homage to Latin American liberation struggles is well represented, with stunning interpretations by such luminaries as Stephen Drury and Ursula Oppens prior to this version by Marc-André Hamelin. Drury's version might well be the high-water mark, in part because New Albion Records wisely included a rousing 1975 live version of the original Sergio Ortega liberation anthem with Quilapayun and thousands of singers to give the piano performance context. But comparing two versions of these 36 variations on the song's theme is fraught, given Rzewski's heavily improvisational performance instructions (e.g., to play variation 11 "like fragments of an absent melody--in strict time," variation 27 "Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression"). Hamelin takes the piece more strictly and in more clearly virtuosic terms than Drury, just as he's taken Scriabin and Medtner. He starts off stronger and paces himself differently, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but always more deliberately. People is a work prone to radically different interpretations, and while it's easy to compare Hamelin and Drury, it's musically better to take each on its own. It's folksy, rootsy music that gets microtonal in fragments and deconstructs the melody so thoroughly that it'll be 36 times lovelier when you're done listening. The added bonus of Hamelin's version is the inclusion of the warm "Down by the Riverside" and "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues", both given the theme-restatement-improvisation processing treatment that marks Rzewski's unparalleled work in traditional folk music. --Andrew Bartlett
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