Rainer Bohm

Rainer Böhm – What If (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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It is as if all the qualities for which the Ravensburg-based pianist and composer Rainer Böhm, who lives in Cologne, is repeatedly praised come together and blossom in these sextet recordings: His stupendous technique, his melodic inventiveness, his melancholic grounding, his excursions towards elements of classical and contemporary serious music, his interplay of melodic design and chordal accompaniment, his pronounced sense of dramaturgy, his balance between improvisation and the composed, his high emotionality, his search for a roughened euphony, his rhythmic accents and, above all, his playing in the service of the respective cause.
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Rainer Böhm, Norbert Scholly – Juvenile (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 15, 2023 · Comments off

There is a transparency in the creative encounter between guitarist Norbert Scholly and pianist Rainer Böhm that shines through Juvenile, their Pirouet Records debut. Sophisticated and exciting, the music flows with a clarity, and natural spontaneity. Scholly and Böhm play jazz that scintillates with alluring melodies, brilliant harmonies, and a rhythmic concept that is in-the-pocket and in between the cracks – compositions that have the feel of the finest chamber music.

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Rainer Böhm – Hýdōr (Piano Works XII) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 15, 2023 · Comments off

“ACT seems to be on a mission to introduce the world to Europe’s rising new jazz-classical pianists,” the UK’s leading jazz critic John Fordham of the Guardian has noted. And jazz for piano has indeed always been part of ACT’s DNA. The label’s roster includes pianists who have achieved international renown such as Joachim Kühn, Esbjörn Svensson and Michael Wollny; and more recently the Austrian David Helbock has started to be recognized as the major talent he clearly is. Siggi Loch started the dedicated album series “Piano Works” to present the finest in solo piano playing, and Rainer Böhm with his album “hýdōr” becomes the latest pianist to enter this pantheon.

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Johannes Enders, Rainer Böhm – Kokoro (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Johannes Enders, Rainer Böhm - Kokoro (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

johannes enders describes himself as an optimistic melancholic, romantic and soulful he calls the music played in the acoustic duo with rainer boehm. Both have known each other for a long time, both now teach as professors of their instruments, both recorded in a duo a good decade and a half ago and have met again and again since then. saxophonist enders appreciates the pianist böhm that despite all his virtuosity he has not forgotten how to serve the overall picture. he does not have to take the lead with his instrument, but can also let the other take the lead. “I am the melody and he is the orchestra”, sums up johannes enders.
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Dieter Ilg, Rainer Böhm & Patrice Heral – Mein Beethoven (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 20, 2022 · Comments off

Mein Beethoven is a logical next step for Dieter Ilg, called one of the best double bassists in the world. His previous chamber jazz album included a whispered theme from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (“Ode to Joy”). On this album, he has satisfied his yearning by recording an entire album dedicated to the most classical of all our composers. Ilg and his perfectly harmonizing trio demonstrate that he is not about gimmicky “jazz goes classic” crossover music, but about taking the originals and somehow making them his own. His incorruptible eye for the essence, making the monumental sensual and human, is impressive.

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Dieter Ilg with Rainer Bohm & Patrice Heral – Mein Beethoven (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 2, 2019 · Comments off

‘Mein Beethoven’ is the logical next step for Dieter Ilg. His last album ‘Parsifal’ – a chamber-jazz interpretation of Richard Wagner’s sacred festival work, which Focus magazine called a ‘highlight in the Richard Wagner Year 2013’ – closed with a whispered theme from Beethoven’s Ninth (‘Ode to Joy’), retitled ‘Sehnsucht’ (Longing) by Ilg. Now he has satisfied that yearning and recorded an entire album, ‘Mein Beethoven’, dedicated to this Olympian of German classical music, the most classical of all our composers, the one-time ‘superstar of the music capital Vienna’: Ludwig van Beethoven.

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