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Bruce Wolosoff

Memento

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Release Date: March 3, 2023

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1 Bruce Wolosoff: Siempre 4.49  
2 Morning Song 4.21  
3 Improvisation on a Ground by Henry Purcell 2.45  
4 After the Rain 3.28  
5 Memento 4.51  
6 Letter to a Friend 2.33  
7 City Lights 2.15  
8 The Lotus Eaters 3.48  
9 Dido’s Blues 4.34  
10 Night Paintings / I. I’ve Got It All Up Here  
11 II. Evening on Karl Johan Street  
12 III. La Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône  
13 IV. Nocturnal  
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Bruce Wolosoff - Memento takes the listener on a journey imbued by various genres. Throughout, Wolosoff opens his heart. His inner voice is his guide, and all his own.

Pianist-composer Bruce Wolosoff is a musical alchemist, organically mixing his multiple experiences in the worlds of jazz, rock, blues and classical music. His new solo album, Memento, melds the evolution of Wolosoff’s performance and compositional style into a genre that is all his own and true to himself. Wolosoff is a “formidable pianist” (Gramophone) who can tackle the great romantics like Busoni and Liszt. He can improvise like Bach and Beethoven as well as today’s jazz greats. His contemporary compositions are informed by his past whilst imbued with his current belief in “the primacy of lyricism and melody.”

With its baroque figuration and bittersweet harmonies, Memento seems to glance towards the music of Astor Piazzolla (the bandoneón- playing composer of tango nuevo who was a stylistic polyglot like Wolosoff). Is it the work’s emotional ambiguities that give it such an evocatively melancholy cinematic character?

  • Bruce Wolosoff chats about 'Memento' with FM91: Classical Conversations
    Posted At: June 6, 2023 12:00 AM
    Bruce Wolosoff is a pianist and an internationally performed composer of solo, chamber, and orchestral music. Lauded as an authentic American voice’ by critic Thomas Bohlert for his integration of classical, jazz, blues, and contemporary influences, Wolosoff often composes in response to visual art and through collaborations with leading artists across a variety of disciplines.Recent projects include t...
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  • Memento: NO DEAD GUYS interviews composer / pianist Bruce Wolosoff
    Posted At: March 24, 2023 12:00 AM
    Pianist-composer Bruce Wolosoff - Memento takes the listener on a journey imbued by various genres. Throughout, Wolosoff opens his heart. His inner voice is his guide, and all his own. Wolosoff is a musical alchemist, organically mixing his multiple experiences in the worlds of jazz, rock, blues and classical music. His new solo album, Memento, melds the evolution of Wolosoff’s performance and compositional...
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  • Bruce Wolosoff - Paradise Found is indelibly inspired by the splendors of the natural world / GRAMOPHONE
    Posted At: June 13, 2022 12:00 AM
    The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably contemporary. His soaring, soulful melodies are strikingly suited to the cello, “in some ways my favorite instrument,” admits Wolosoff, “after my own of course.” For ...
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  • Shelter Island composer Bruce Wolosoff named artistic director of innovative concert series / Shelter Island
    Posted At: October 2, 2021 12:00 AM
    Composer Bruce Wolosoff, who lives and works on the Island, has been named artistic director of Reflections in Music, which will make its return to live, in-person concerts on Saturday, Oct. 9 with the world premiere performance of two cello sonatas written by Mr. Wolosoff.Composed during the height of the pandemic, the sonatas offer two meditations on climate change and global crises. “Requiem for the Plan...
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