Bernt Moen Trio – The Storm (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Bernt Moen Trio - The Storm (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Bernt Moen Trio – The Storm (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:11 minutes | 419 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records

In the score to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 (from 1801) there is written “Sonata quasi una fantasia.” I started thinking about that phrase upon listening to Bernt Moen Trio’s The Storm. My association was not to the fact that the popular name of Beethoven’s sonata is the Moonlight Sonata, although references to nature or natural phenomena seem to be in common. But it was the “quasi una fantasia” that struck me – like a fantasy. As almost a musical genre, the fantasia is a musical composition rooted in improvisation, a free play with musical material, and listening to Bernt Moen’s piano on this album may seem like an echo or a continuation of the fantasia in the European tradition of compositional music. Composition and improvisation as two sides of the same coin, as continuations of each other.
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