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Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light / Caine, Bensoussan, et al.

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About Mahler: Urlicht - Primal Light

Product description No Description Available. Genre: Jazz Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 11-APR-1997 Amazon.com This auspicious, surprising, release debuted the Winter & Winter imprimatur, which carries on German producer Stefan Winter's longstanding role in blurring musical boundaries, as he did for so many years with the jazz label JMT. Pianist Uri Caine, known mainly for playing in the polystylistic mode of New York's downtown jazz scene, steeped himself in Mahler's music in preparation for the 1995 series of concerts leading up to this CD. Caine's ensemble--14 members strong, at points--recasts portions of Mahler's symphonic cloudbursts into a setting that smacks of klezmer, jazz, and crazy combinations of the scores' lavish bombastics. It's clear that Mahler's works tested the boundaries of so many available sounds at the turn of the century, from cantors to martial brass to Wagnerian bulk. Caine attempts it all, succeeding most somberly in the sections based on the Resurrection Symphony and most clangorously in the First Symphony's third movement, transformed into a serious klezmer bash by Caine, clarinetist , and drummer . --Andrew Bartlett Review Caine effectively demonstrates how easily Mahler's Teutonic facade can be peeled back to reveal his Semitic origins. Not only does cantor Aaron Benrisoussan transfigure Mahler's solemn songs but Bensoussan's hand drums and vocalese also propels a Radio Tarifa-like interlude that is subsumed by an avalanche of sound. -- Jazz Times