Jazz Preludes 2 Wolf-Tempered Piano EMB Softcover

Similarly to Bach's cycleThe Well-Tempered Clavieror to Chopin's24 Preludes, and similarly to his own collection published in 2019, theWolf-temperiertes Klavier, Péter Wolf penned 24 piano pieces again. HisJazz Preludesset examples for improvisation and make use of the entire stylistic spectrum of jazz, ranging from the gospel (“Anthem, No. 7”) to blues (“Windlass, No. 1”), bebop (“Crime, No. 11”), Latin jazz (“Tropical Night, No. 6”), and, of course, the world of ballads (“Nostalgia, No. 4” and “Question Without Answer, No. 16”). The individual movements are no mere style exercises or piano technique exercises but, like Debussy's preludes, they are expressive character pieces: musical images of a phenomenon, an emotion, a behavior pattern, a personal experience reflected by their titles.