Pianist Maurizio Baglini presents The Köln Concert , Keith Jarrett's iconic album, in a purely improvised concert on Friday, April 24th at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari (8:30 pm) . This performance is part of the "Great Interpreters of Music" program, organized by the Cooperativa Teatro e/o Musica.
The album, released in 1975, is the best-selling solo piano album in history, with four million copies sold. The Cologne concert came about under fortuitous circumstances: Keith Jarrett had been guaranteed a Bösendorfer grand piano in perfect condition, but the instrument he found before him was a much smaller model, worn, even out of tune, and with a broken pedal. Convinced to play, Jarrett performed his music by testing the piano in front of an audience, studying it and creating hypnotic, haunting, and incredible melodies, albeit limited by the piano's flaws, giving life to a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Maurizio Baglini re-enacts that extraordinary moment, reinterpreting not the notes—improvised at the time but now etched in history—but rather modifying his own improvisation, which differs from the original, on the tempo, dynamics, and timbre, almost in an experiment in improvisation within improvisation. Not a peerless and unrepeatable performance, Baglini himself explains, but a different, personal vision.
