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One note. A two-bar phrase. A two-bar phrase repeated.
A two-bar phrase repeated, expanded, varied and transformed, soft and loud, fierce and gentle. A 97-key Bossendorfer Imperial piano pounded, pumelled and caressed.
Cecil Taylor displays intense concentration on this solo piano concert from 2000. Listening, I feel as if I’m peeking into a closed universe, spending fifty minutes suspended in non-Newtonian time.
We’re brought back to Earth on three short encores.
The Willisau Concert is one of Cecil's best solo performances.
Release Date: 5 March 2002
Cecil Taylor:
The Willisau Concert (Intakt)
[available from
Cadence/North Country]
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last update 23 December 2002