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Baroque Favorites.
Baroque Favorites: Jacques Loussier Trio. Telarc Jazz CD-80516.
This album marks the ninth Jacques Loussier Trio disc in Telarc's series of jazz recordings based on classical favorites. I wasn't too keen on the group's interpretations of Vivaldi, but I loved their Debussy. Now, the trio have turned their attention to various short Baroque works with mostly positive results.
They get off to a shaky start, however. The album begins with Handel's Sarabande from Suite No. 11, a classical favorite that has gotten some good mileage in films (think Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon). The trouble is that the piece begins very slowly, with a funereal mood and tempo, which the trio render most solemnly for about half a minute before they begin to soup it so much the contrast sounds vaguely ludicrous. Then they launch into a whole succession of variations that are only mildly successful.
The pieces that work ...
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