''Vienna Concert'' is a live solo piano album by American pianist
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...
recorded on July 13, 1991 at the
Vienna Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria and released by
ECM
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label in 1992.
It has a forty-two-minute arch-like opening movement that exhibits a much greater debt to classical music than Jarrett's earlier improvised concerts.
In its original liner notes Jarrett himself wrote "I have courted the fire for a very long time, and many sparks have flown in the past, but the music on this recording speaks, finally, the language of the flame itself."
Reception
The
Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "Jarrett's exalted judgment is close to the mark; though more Eurocentric than ever, these are his most impressive solo performances since Sun Bear".
[Ginell, R]
Allmusic Review
accessed September 9, 2011
Track listing
:''All music by Keith Jarrett''
# "Vienna, Part 1" - 42:05
# "Vienna, Part 2" - 26:03
Total effective playing time: 66:43 (the album contains 1:25 applause approximately)
Personnel
* Keith Jarrett –
piano
Production
* Manfred Eicher and Keith Jarrett - producer
*
Manfred Eicher - producer
* Peter Laenger - engineer (recording)
* Barbara Wojirsch - cover design and layout
* Kuni Shinohara - photography
References
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Keith Jarrett live albums
1992 live albums
ECM Records live albums
Albums produced by Manfred Eicher
Instrumental albums
Solo piano jazz albums