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Preisner: Ten Easy Pieces for Piano

~ Leszek Mozdzer (Performer)
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  • Performer: Leszek Mozdzer
  • Audio CD (20 Mar 2000)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • ASIN: B00004LCAP
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 61,658 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: A Good Morning Melody 4:19£0.69
Listen  2. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: Meditation 5:56£0.69
Listen  3. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: To See More 4:11£0.69
Listen  4. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: Talking to Myself 7:04£1.89
Listen  5. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: The Art of Flying 3:58£0.69
Listen  6. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: About Passing 5:29£0.69
Listen  7. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: Farewell 5:11£0.69
Listen  8. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: A Tune a Day 4:30£0.69
Listen  9. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: Greetings from Pamalican 8:06£1.89
Listen10. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano: A Good Night Melody 4:43£0.69

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  1. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano
    Composed by Zbigniew Preisner
    with Leszek Mozdzer

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Amazon.co.uk Review

In the 1990s Zbigniew Preisner became well known for his beautiful scores for the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, especially The Double Life of Veronique and the "Colours Trilogy" introduced by Three Colours Blue. Following Kieslowski's death Preisner transformed the music for their most recent project into the beautiful choral work, Requiem for my Friend. As the composer says: "the question to be answered is whether those of us who are left have...enough strength to say, 'Now it is our time. Now look at us.' Do we have enough talent..." For answer Preisner has chosen the intimate voice of single piano. In the excellent accompanying booklet he acknowledges the influence of Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert, and pays due homage with a comparable sound and style. Apart from playing on many Preisner soundtracks, Leszek Mozdzer is an acclaimed jazz pianist noted for his Chopin Impressions, and here offers concentrated and controlled improvisation on simple yet melodically engaging material. Ten Easy Pieces for Piano is an elegantly fluid album with an attractively atmospheric sound; easier to enjoy than to classify, it should find equal favour with classical, jazz and film music audiences. As for Preisner's question, discerning listeners have long been positive about the answer. --Gary S Dalkin

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5.0 out of 5 stars Preisner: More Than Just Another Film Composer, 27 Aug 2000
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Until 1999 the Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner was known only for his film soundtracks - chiefly for films directed by his friend and collaborator, Krzystof Kieslowski. Then came the remarkable 'Requiem For My Friend' and now there is Ten Easy Pieces, a modestly titled album of exquisitely played piano works. The titles of the pieces offer clues about the inspiration behind them - Meditation, To See More, About Passing, A Good Night Melody. In the sleeve notes Preisner offers a further clue - "I like very much all the music recorded by Keith Jarrett...maybe it inspired me to do something similar." There are certainly shades of early Jarrett in such pieces as Talking To Myself but the influences are much wider ranging encompassing as they do Chopin, Debussy and Bill Evans. The results are mere confirmations of Preisner's undoubted talent and direction. Some have, unfairly in my opinion, compared him with Michael Nyman but this detracts from Preisner's grounding in Polish folk music and tradition whereas Nyman is more at home with the precision of baroque styles. On one level Ten Easy Pieces can be listened to as relaxation music and this it does admirably - there are no unpleasant intrusions from a more modern hand here. On another level, however, the pieces are there to be explored and dissected. The playing of Leszek Mozdzer is intuitive and sympathetic to everything Preisner is attempting to express with the soft pedal being used to convincing effect. The atmosphere throughout the album is generally cheerful and pastoral with A Good Morning Melody and Meditation standing out as memorably tranquil. For those who have heard Preisner's music in films this will be an instant addition to their collections; for those who have not heard his music this not only serves as the ideal introduction but also as an excellent fifty three minutes of perfect peace.
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