La Scala (album)

La Scala
Live album by Keith Jarrett
Released June 3, 1997
Recorded February 13, 1995
Teatro alla Scala, Milano
Genre Jazz
Length 78:37
Label ECM
ECM 1640
Producer Manfred Eicher
Keith Jarrett chronology
W.A. Mozart: Piano Concertos, Masonic Funeral Music, Symphony In G Minor
(1994)		 La Scala
(1997)		 Tokyo '96
(1998)

La Scala is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett which was released on the ECM label in 1997. It was recorded in concert on February 13, 1995 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, Italy.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music overall develops slowly but always holds one's interest, reinforcing one's viewpoint of Keith Jarrett as one of the top pianists of the 1980s and '90s.".[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing

  1. "La Scala, Part 1" - 44:54
  2. "La Scala, Part 2" - 27:42
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 6:01
All compositions by Keith Jarrett except as indicated.

Personnel

Musicological notes

Probably not without a sense of irony to the setting of this recording, Part 1 climaxes into a sheer citation of the famous aria Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 17, 2011