Zofo Plays Terry Riley
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Release Date: 05/05/2015
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
ZOFO - pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi -is at it again, this time with an all Terry Riley album that includes original compositions, arrangements and a special commission by the duet. From the very beginning, Terry Riley worked in collaboration with ZOFO in the making of this album. Mr. Riley himself said: "There is nothing quite like hearing the full 8 octaves of a piano sounding in all it's orchestral richness."He certainly makes full use of the sounds of the piano in the pieces originally written for piano two hands, from The Heaven Ladder Book 5. Keisuke arranged G Song and Half-Wolf Dances at Moonlight, originally composed for string quartet, and Eva arranged Simone's Lullaby, originally for solo piano. The Praying Mantis Rag was composed especially for ZOFO to illustrate the duo's vibrant character.".jaw-dropping awesome!" (San Francisco Examiner)(.energetically and electrifyingly out of this world" (Bachtrack)"One of the most enthralling piano duets of today's millennial generation." (San Francisco Classical Voice)
REVIEW
"ZOFO Plays Terry Riley" proves that the musical magic of piano extends far beyond a pianist's 10 fingers. Through their exploration of Riley's works, Zimmermann and Nakagoshi paint a vivid and colorful picture of the immense textural, timbral, and stylistic possibilities of piano duets."
--Maggie Molloy, Secondinversion.org, June 2015
"In ZOFO Plays Terry Riley, the prodigiously talented piano duo present Riley's music at its virtuoso best.perfectly balancing the music's spiritual and corporeal dimensions." --Gramophone Awards 2015, Chamber Reviews