"Joachim Kühn ist ein Originalgenie, mit dem Anspruch, ein Maximum an Expressivität bei höchstmöglicher Individualität zu bieten"
(SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG)
Creating a unity between keyboard and music: the CD “Allegro Vivace” by Joachim Kühn If there’s a pianist who can record Bach, Mozart, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman while also including his own compositions without their seeming out of place, it can only be Joachim Kühn. Born in Leipzig in 1944, he regularly performed in classical concerts as a child, before his first appearance on the international jazz stage at the age of 19 – and where until now he still remains a major figure, not least in Europe. This CD by Joachim Kühn is the first of a new series of piano recordings, with which ACT Music now wishes to showcase famous pianists performing solo. And Kühn shows in this release, which he calls "Allegro Vivace", that he has an unsurpassable and amazingly broad technical range: Couperin, Bach, Coltrane, Coleman –...
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Recorded by Gerard de Haro at Studio La Buisonne, France on June 12, 2003
Mastered by Walter Quintus
Produced by Joachim Kühn
