Uri Caine

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Enjoy the Diabelli Variations for piano and orchestra by Ludwig van Beethoven and jazz improvisation by Uri Caine.

Uri Caine is probably someone whose name has yet to cross the threshold of Beethoven Forum. A pianist with an arch wit and an education that places him somewhere between classical music and jazz, Caine has situated his work at the boundary between art music and its clever deconstruction. His previous recordings have matched Mahler and Wagner with Klezmer and Schumann’s Dichterlieder with weeping country guitars, Japanese poetry, and Latin grooves. Most impressively, his seventy‐two‐variation remaking of the “Goldberg” Variations crashed Bach’s contrapuntal masterpiece against the staggering variety of styles and instrumentations available in the late twentieth century not only Baroque, Classical, and Romantic, but also jazz, salsa, experimental music, and hiphop. Now he’s moved to Beethoven, with an orchestrated version of the “Diabelli” Variations that is as deeply stimulating as it is unsettling.

"Caine sees his role as providing a continuous commentary to Beet‐ hoven’s Variations. Caine listens hyperactively and often has interesting ideas. Sometimes he plays obsessively with Beethoven’s rhythmic motives, or jerks away suddenly into flighty fast passages. But the problem is that all this is happening at the same time as the original source."  Scott DeVeaux

 

Orchestra 1813

Uri Caine, Piano

Carlo Tenan, Conductor