Search - Leszek Mozdzer :: Piano

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Zdrowy Kollataj (Tymon Tymanski)
2. Sanctus (trad.)
3. Exploris (Leszek Mozdzer)
4. Kamilla (Leszek Mozdzer)
5. Bzdurox (Leszek Mozdzer)
6. No message (Leszek Mozdzer)
7. So what (Miles Davis)
8. Pi (Leszek Mozdzer)
9. Exploritis (Leszek Mozdzer)
10. Let?s do it tomorrow (Leszek Mozdzer)
11. On Green Dolphin Street (Bronislaw Kaper)
12. Christus vincit (trad.)

CD Details

All Artists: Leszek Mozdzer
Title: Piano
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arms Records
Original Release Date: 6/1/2004
Release Date: 6/1/2004
Genre: New Age
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 786497164325

Synopsis

Album Description

I hear the phone ringing. I pick it up. A Low Voice with a characteristic metallic lustre offers me to take part in a solo piano recording in Holland as soon as possible. ?I am really good at it"- the Voice tries to convince me. I can?t manage to get the number for more than a week. ?I?ll call and give it to you tomorrow", I hear the invariable Voice. I follow the instructions. A coach to Rotterdam. Crumpled and hesitant, I get off on a square bathing in the afternoon sun where a man going white, with somewhat demonic face is waiting for me. His narrow eyes penetrate me. We get in the car. So far I only know we are recording in a chapel of a monastery. It looks it?s going to be interesting. After a short essential talk, a silence falls. I calm down, as I get tired by superficial talks, and the silence soothes me. I like silent people, which is probably why I instantly took to Leszek Blach Siewierski. We reach our destination. High, solid walls made of dark red brick. At the front a large font, in the middle of the chapel, in the place of the altar ? a shiny Steinway. I sit at the keyboard to strike the first chord ? a fine, full tone sinking in the echo, which had been soaking by people?s prayers for hundreds of years, instantly raises my mood. I run my fingers on the keyboard ? each key perfectly balanced, the keyboard even, not too deep, still rather heavy. I like them that way best. I took some pencils and rubbers from Poland. I scatter them all on the strings curious if they sound the same as at home. They sound better... (Excerpt from attached booklet)

CD Reviews

Bring timeless music into your audio room

Chazz | Long Beach, CA USA | 07/23/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Bring timeless music into your audio room or put up your high quality headphones. Superiorly recorded for the most discriminating listeners, this gold-covered CD was recorded without mixing table and with no sound filters. Deep, rich sound with unique timber, articulation and sophisticated harmony. Mystic atmosphere and eclectic inspirations, ranging from Bach to Keith Jarrett and from Chopin to Cecil Taylor. Eclectic but immediately recognizable sound combining the elements of ancient, romantic and contemporary music with jazz expression and appealing to both fans fans of improvised and written music. Virtuosity of performer; stunning creativity and adventuress of the composer. Only 33 years old pianist Leszek Mozdzer has already played with the greatest: from Tomasz Stanko to Lester Bowie, from Michal Urbaniak to Dave Liebman, from Zbigniew Namyslowski to Pat Metheny. Now he?s alone: the virtuoso, the piano and the sound. The music of 21st Century: deeply rooted in variety of traditions when at the same moment looking forward where nobody ever laid his eye.

The recording was made in 1997 in Haarendael Institute (Haaren, Holand), Steinway grand piano, series D 1978.

Equipment: Nagra D, 2 microphones Bruel & Kjaer 4006, preamplifier Artur Kami?ski, converter AD/DA Prism AD 1.

Cables Van den Hul The Second 36 m, interconect VdH The Second 80 cm. Microphones were placed at a distance of a head (20cm) from each other. No mixing desk and filters were used.

Listening tests: Genelec 1030 A (Mogami cables), Transformer separating from the network, for Nagra.

Speakers: Audio Physic Avanti III, Audio Physic Tempo III JE, Waterfall Victoria, B&W Nautilus 804, ProAc Studio 100, ProAc D25, Monitor Audio Gold Reference 60, Castle Acoustics Howard, others Amplifiers: Krell FPB 300 cx, Mcintosh MC252, Krell KAV 400xi, McIntosh 6900, Copland CSA 29, Rotel RA-1070, NAD C-372, Conrad-Johnson MF 250, Baltlab Epoca, others CD players: Linn CD12, Krell KPS 28c, Krell SACD Standard, Musical Fidelity A308cr, Naim CDX2, Classe Audio CDP-10, Marantz CD 17KI Modified, others.

Cables: Nordost, Fadel, Audioquest, Tara Labs, Siltech, others. Power accessories: Power Audio Laboratories, Neel."