by Ralph van Raat · Naxos Deutschland GmbH · CD · EAN 0636943936023
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«The People United Will Never Be Defeated!» is the album by Frederic Rzewski with Ralph van Raat on piano, released in 2008 by Naxos on CD.
The album includes Frederic Rzewski's work for solo piano consisting of 36 variations on the Chilean protest song «El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!», by Sergio Ortega, alongside «Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues» (from the North American Ballads). The music combines virtuoso piano with passages ranging from energetic modernism to blues, dense polyphony, and free jazz.
Recorded at the Bachzaal in Amsterdam in April 2007. Total duration: 73:05. Naxos reference 8.559360.
For fans of contemporary classical music and virtuoso piano with a social and political background.
