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Skrjabin in Jazz

by Marcello Tonolo

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1) The blue silver side (Prelude op. 16 n. 4); 2) Languid violet (Dance languid); 3) Klein (Prelude op. 31 n. 4); 4) Golden steps (Studio op. 7 n. 8); 5) Scarlet dream (Reverie); 6) Sonata in blue (Sonata n. 4); 7) Rufus (Caresse dansee); 8) Danzamarina (Mazurca op. 25 n. 2); 9) Pervinca (Prelude op. 17 n. 4); 10) Indigo (Prelude op. 11 n. 15).

All tunes composed by Marcello Tonolo and inspired by
Alexander Skrjabin’ scores.
Recorded, mixed and mastered in October 2017,
by Mario Marcassa,at Cat Sound Studio, Badia Polesine (Rovigo).

A tre anni da «Crazeology» Marcello Tonolo torna a far parlare di sé con un nuovo interessante lavoro basato su una rilettura in chiave jazzistica di dieci opere pianistiche del compositore russo Alexander Skrjabin. Aveva già fatto qualcosa di analogo con l’album «Puccini in Jazz» nel 2013. In quell’occasione il pianista veneto guidava un quartetto con Michele Polga al sax tenore, qui invece metà dei brani sono eseguiti dal solo trio, l’altra metà da un sestetto completato ancora da Polga, da David Boato alla tromba e Federico Pierantoni al trombone.
Spiega nelle note di copertina Tonolo: “Nel 2015, per il centenario della morte di Alexander Skrjabin, mi è stato chiesto di reinterpretarne qualche brano in chiave jazzistica. Dopo una ponderata riflessione sul senso e sui rischi che l’operazione comportava … mi sono messo al lavoro. Ho preso in esame alcuni preludi, studi e sonate scritte per pianoforte dal grande compositore a cavallo fra l’800 ed il ‘900. Doveva essere un progetto limitato ad un paio di pezzi; in realtà la musica di Skrjabin, che non conoscevo in tutte le sue sfaccettature, si è rivelata estremamente stimolante e così, brano dopo brano, sono arrivato a costruire un repertorio sufficientemente ampio da farne un Cd.”. Si passa così dalle inattese coloriture monkiane di Languid Violet e dal lirismo dolcemente nostalgico di Indigo, entrambi eseguiti in trio, ai raffinati arrangiamenti per sestetto di Scarlet dream o Pervinca, contrassegnati dall’inconfondibile tratto stilistico della scrittura orchestrale di Tonolo. I dieci brani si lasciano ascoltare tutti d’un fiato, dall’inizio alla fine, come parti complementari di un’unica suite.
E’ ancora il pianista a precisare: “ Il risultato è così lontano dall’originale da convincermi a firmare a mio nome tutti i brani rielaborati, intitolandoli secondo una mia personale tavolozza dei colori, simile a quella che Skrjabin ideò per il suo noto poema «Prometeo», dove ad ogni colore corrispondeva una tonalità.”

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Three years after «Crazeology», Marcello Tonolo is back with a new interesting work based on a jazz reinterpretation of ten piano pieces by the Russian composer Alexander Skrjabin. He had previously worked in a similar way on the album «Puccini in Jazz» in 2013. On that occasion, the Venetian pianist led a quartet with Michele Polga playing tenor sax; here, on the other hand, half of the songs are played by the trio only, and the other half by a sextet completed again by Polga, besides David Boato on trumpet and Federico Pierantoni on trombone.
In his liner notes Tonolo explains: “In 2015, for the centenary of the death of Alexander Skrjabin, I was asked to reinterpret some of the pieces in a jazz key. After careful consideration on the meaning of the operation and the risks involved… I started working. I examined some preludes, studies and sonatas written for piano by the great composer at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It had to be a project limited to a couple of songs; instead, Skrjabin’s music, which I did not know in all its facets, proved to be extremely stimulating and so, track after track, I built a repertoire large enough to make it into a record…”.
You go from the unexpected Monk’s colors of Languid Violet and the sweetly nostalgic lyricism of Indigo, both performed in trio, to the refined sextet arrangements of Scarlet dream or Pervinca, marked by the unmistakable stylistic trait of Marcello Tonolo’s orchestral writing. The ten tunes are worth to be listened to in one breath, from beginning to end, as complementary parts of a single suite. Once again the pianist specifies: “The result is so far from the original to convince me to put my name on all the reworked songs, naming them according to a personal palette of colors, similar to the one that Skrjabin conceived for his famous poem «Prometheus», where a tone corresponded to each color…“.

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released January 28, 2019

Marcello Tonolo (piano), Domenico Santaniello (double bass),
Mauro Beggio (drums);
Added on tracks n. 1/3/5/7/9: David Boato (trumpet, flugelhorn),
Federico Pierantoni (trombone), Michele Polga (tenor sax).

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