Bravo amundo!Īctive Imagination Sheet Music Collection is the companion songbook to Isadar?s 1999 CD release, Active Imagination. Beautiful in its simplicity, this is the only track that seems to contain an element of pain and sorrow, but never dissolves into melodrama.Īctive Imagination is excellent from start to finish and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes solo piano with substance and complexity, but is still accessible, melodic, and rhythmic. The left hand plays a repeated pattern while the right hand goes off in several different directions (one of the primary characteristics of a ?chaconne?).
?Love Chaconne? is the closing track, and is the longest and most abstract piece on the CD. ?Uncertainty? is cooler and more aloof, but gorgeous in its flowing introspection - that it ends with a major chord, feels like the soul-searching has had positive results. ?Feu Follet (the ?spook? light?)? has a nice, easy flow with a strong sense of mystery it also has an unusual rhythm that lightens the mood and adds a bounce. Isadar?s cover of Liz Story?s ?Wedding Rain? is wonderful - this is a piece I often work on with my advanced students, and everything about Isadar?s interpretation of the piece seems right without being a carbon-copy of Liz?s recording.
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?Waiting? is a beautiful, flowing mood piece full of questions and a lovely melody line. The meter changes are fascinating, and the bluesy beat on ?Wild Things? is infectious.įrom there, the mood seems to gradually darken and become more introspective. The first three tracks are lively and upbeat (?Active Imagination?, ?Throwing the Dice?, and ?Where the Wild Things Are?) with an easy, jazzy, improvised feel. He lists his inspirations as Liz Story, Keith Jarrett, and Bill Evans, and I can hear traces of all three in his playing, but find his composing and playing styles to be uniquely his own. Isadar?s style is original, and his pianism is excellent.
I would say that Active Imagination definitely belongs near the top of the heap. I love this CD! It constantly amazes me how many outstanding composer/pianists there are out there - especially in relation to the few who are highly (commercially) successful within this broad genre.
Note: A slightly different version of this composition is also heard on the Isadar album, "Reconstructed" (Produced by Will Ackerman)Īlbum & Songbook Review by: Kathy Parsons Transcribed by: David Shenton ( ) verbatim to the sound recording Sounds like: Liz Story's ("Things With Wings"), Philip Aaberg, George Winston, early Windham Hill solo piano artists taken from the Isadar solo piano collections, "Active Imagination / Reconstructed" (also available on SMP)
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