Ir¿¿ne Schweizer & Pierre Favre

by Irene Schweizer, Pierre Favre

Overview

This is the fourth in the series of piano-drum duos recorded by Irene Schweizer for Intakt. This one with Pierre Favre, the drummer she's known perhaps the longest since her defection from the world of classical music, is also the most compelling by far on a number of levels. For one thing, this is decidedly a jazz date, unlike the ones with Han Bennink or Louis Moholo. For another, there is no fight here, no battle for supremacy or to display "chops" to the other. Over the 11 selections recorded live in Bern, the sheer musicality of this pair is staggering. Schweizer's muscular chromaticism is matched in texture by Favre's dancing tom-tom runs and slippery snare work. When Favre does let loose, skittering across the cymbals and hi-hat before tearing loose on the snare, his handiwork is met by large comped-up chords that seem to react rhythmically to his jagged pulse on the skins. When the pace turns to dynamic sweetness and light -- or perhaps twilight, as Schweizer's harmonic sensibility is wont to from time to time because of her comfort with all things consonant -- and trickles of Schubert or even Haydn slip from her fingers, Favre's brushes play accents on the rhythm, almost inaudibly. This is a topnotch live set that reveals piano and drum pairings are not always percussive pound-a-thons. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	01/29/1994
Label:	Intakt Records
UPC:	7619942500924
Rank:	126230

Tracks

1. Cache-Cache
2. Ein Schnelles Verfahren
3. Miramara
4. Bongiorno Giacomo
5. Fulmination
6. Flying Over the Limmat
7. Una Tarantella Fantastica
8. Ein Ton Kommt Selten Allein
9. Moving Time
10. What Is It You Wanted?
11. First Wave-Last Word

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Irene Schweizer   Primary Artist,Piano
Pierre Favre   Primary Artist,Drums,Percussion

Technical Credits

Peter Ruedi   Liner Notes
Pierre Favre   Composer
Peter Pfister   Engineer
Irene Schweizer   Mastering