Label: Discus Music

名門FMPにソロ音源を多く残した英国の名ピアニストKeith Tippett(2020年他界)、様々なグループでの活動を並行して行っている同国のジャズピアニストMatthew Bourne、凄まじい技術を持つ演奏家2者によるロンドン・ユニオン・チャペルでのパフォーマンス記録。全く異なるスタイルを持つ2者である為その結果が非常に面白く、もはや雑音と化したストリングスの強靭放射、ミステリアスなメロディー、不協和音の連続等、様々な変則スタイルが確認出来る2CD編成。チャペルの空間性も素晴らしい。







"These inspired duets sound so unforced and unconstrained that they blow fresh life into that well-worn image. From the outset, two quite distinct pianists establish common ground, where they interweave and spring surprises. It's wonderfully fertile ground too. Strings of scintillating moments bound seamlessly into musical mesh, now mysteriously chromatic, now alluringly melodic, fractiously dissonant, propulsive or ethereal. Tippett's speaking voice, heard fleetingly, suggests a degree of physical frailty, but at the piano his vitality is undiminished, and as he savours the mujician's company Bourne's playing has never sounded finer." - Julian Cowley, THE WIRE

Spanning a three-year period between 2017-2019, Keith Tippett and Matthew Bourne performed a series of two-piano concerts - nearly all of which were recorded. Discus Music is incredibly proud to make the fruits of this vital work available as a double album, comprising of two beautifully-recorded performances from 2019: a set of individual studio pieces recorded at Leeds Conservatoire is paired with a remarkable live performance from Daylight Music at Union Chapel, London; which sadly proved to be Keith's final public statement.