Loose Cuts
The 3 B’s
- Composer
- Beethoven
- Released
- 2002
- Label
- Playscape Recordings
- Forces
- Piano, Solo
- Catalogue
- PSR#J080199
Rosenthal places Beethoven beside Bud Powell and Bill Evans as one of three composing pianists whose music can sustain a solo improviser’s scrutiny. The Beethoven pieces are not decorative interludes: they recur between the jazz compositions and give the album its third structural strand.
Hear both
The classical side carries the source works these cuts came from. The jazz side carries the cuts themselves. Each player holds what is available, and they need not match.
The originalsBeethoven
Jazzed up3 cuts
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The cuts
The classical-derived cuts from this record, each with the classical work it came from.
- Improvisation on Beethoven’s “Pathetique” Sonata, 2nd MovementBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13: II. Adagio cantabile
- Improvisation On Beethoven’s “Pathetique” Sonata, 3rd MovementBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13: III. Rondo. Allegro
- Improvisation On Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 109, 3rd MovementBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109: III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo