Album guide
Virtuosi
- Released
- 2002
- Label
- Concord Jazz
- Forces
- Vibraphone, Piano
- Personnel
- Gary Burton vibraphone, Makoto Ozone piano
For Virtuosi, Burton selected the repertoire by ordering a pile of classical CDs and listening until something caught his ear.
He noted that hardly any classical repertoire exists for vibraphone.
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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
Track 9 pairs the Berceuse and Flower Duet from Delibes’s Lakmé, so the classical player includes one recording of each. The other nine classical-source tracks have one recording apiece, while Ozone’s closing original has none.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Le Tombeau De Couperin I - PreludeRavel: Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68, I. Prélude
- Excursions I, Opus 20Barber: Excursions, Op. 20 No. 1, Un poco allegro
- Prelude VIII, Opus 32Rachmaninoff: Prelude in A minor, Op. 32 No. 8
- MilongaCardoso: Milonga, from 24 Piezas Sudamericanas
- Prelude IIGershwin: Three Preludes, No. 2
- Sonata K20Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in E major, K. 20 “Capriccio”
- Impromptu - From Three Little OdditiesConfrey: Three Little Oddities, I. Impromptu
- Piano Concerto In F - Movement IIIGershwin: Piano Concerto in F, III. Allegro agitato
- Lakmé Medley: Berceuse / DuettinoDelibes: Lakmé, Act III No. 15, Berceuse “Sous le ciel tout étoilé”; Delibes: Lakmé, Act I No. 2, Flower Duet “Sous le dôme épais”
- Capriccio II, Opus 76Brahms: 8 Klavierstücke, Op. 76 No. 2, Capriccio in B minor
- Something Borrowed, Something BlueOriginal composition by Makoto Ozone