Credits:

Rzewski, Frederic (1938-2021)

Description:

Not only the "Indomitable People" Variations, but also Jefsky's later works are recorded by a pianist related to Jefsky. Frederic Jefsky was a Polish-American composer and pianist active in the 20th and 21st centuries. This album features his later works performed by Bobby Mitchell, who was a close friend of his. Songs of War" is a work that weaves together a total of six anti-war and war-related songs from France, England, Ireland, Germany, and the United States from the medieval French popular song "Rom Armée" to the 20th century, and has a strong message that is typical of Jefsky. In the other works, however, the themes become more abstract and general, and the density of the notes is reduced to a meditative tendency. Saints and Sinners," placed at the end of the album, is a piece Mitchell performed after the funeral when invited to the funeral by Jefsky's relatives.According to Mitchell's own liner (English only), Jefsky repeatedly asked him to play Brahms' Interlude Op. 118, No. 2 at his funeral (Mitchell also played this piece), an episode that conveys Jefsky's romantic side. It can be said that this is an episode that conveys the romantic side of Jefsky. Naxos Japan