Classical Classroom, Episode 41: RERUN - Pretty Pattern Preludes With Karim Al-Zand
Classical Classroom
English - August 15, 2017 19:08 - 34 minutes - 56.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsMusic Arts classicalmusic daciaclay learnaboutclassicalmusic music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Greetings listeners! We’re rerunning this episode of the podcast in honor of Karim Al-Zand’s recent premiere of the new work, “The Prisoner,” at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, California. The piece was inspired by the writings of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
This episode is about something else: pattern preludes.
Pattern preludes are enigmas inside of conundrums wrapped in a warm flour tortilla. No – wait. That’s not right… Pattern preludes, according to composer Karim Al-Zand’s website, are, “…pieces constrained by a single idea (usually a rhythmic or textural ostinato) through which a composer expresses a narrowly focused thought. Patterning is especially well-suited to preludes, which are by convention short, concise and introductory.” Bach, Chopin, Debussy, and others wrote pattern preludes. These little pieces function as a tool by which classical music newbies can get to know a composer’s style. Learn aaall about them in this episode!
Music in this episode:
Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier C major prelude book 1 Chopin’s C major Etude, Op 10, No.1, played by Vladimir Ashkenazy Chopin/Bach, played by Kana Mimaki Al-Zand Pattern Prelude No. 1 (after Bach), played by DiLiberto Schumann Album Leaves Op. 124, No. 17, played by Denes VarjonAudio production by Todd “Titters” Hulslander with alliteration from Dacia Clay.