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Dances for Zoe

10/27/2023, 21 Tracks, 56:39

Featuring

  • Matan Porat
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Thomas Adès
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Bill Evans
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Conlon Nancarrow
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Erik Satie
  • François Couperin
  • Helmut Lachenmann
  • Dmitri Shostakovich

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Album & Artwork

This album, titled "Dances for Zoe," presents a diverse collection of dances spanning four centuries of music.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Matan Porat has collaborated with legendary director Peter Brook, touring with his production of Mozart's Magic Flute for piano solo and seven singers.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Matan Porat, the pianist and composer on this album, is known for his unique, narrative-based programming and varied repertoire.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano are so rhythmically complex that they can only be performed live by a player piano with piano-rolls, not by a human.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Matan Porat improvises live music for silent films, a skill that has been praised by Alex Ross of The New-Yorker as "an astounding feat of creative musicianship."

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The Mazurka, a Polish dance, is characterized by accents on the second or third beat, unlike a waltz which accents the first beat.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The recording was made in Neumarkt, Germany, from May 23 to 25, 2022, and features a Steinway D piano.

Source: Booklet

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