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Booklettext zu „Flow“
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Harry Pepl Archive: PAO Records (CD-Booklet, CD 10140-2): Booklettext zu „Flow“ (1996). https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p345 (accessed 20 October 2026).
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- Press
- Title
- Booklettext zu „Flow“
- Authors
- Georg Pepl
- Date
- 1996
- Publication, label, publisher or university
- PAO Records
- Language
- DE
- Summary
- PAO Records (CD-Booklet, CD 10140-2) · Georg Pepl · Other
- Permanent address
- https://www.harrypepl.com/en/archive/press/#p345
Liner notes by Georg Pepl, musicologist and Harry Pepl’s elder son, for the solo piano album “Flow” (recorded on Sunday, 10 March 1996, in the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein), printed in the booklet also in Stephen Ferguson’s English translation. The text presents the improviser at the piano as an image of isolation and of freedom and draws a line from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s free fantasias via Mozart and Beethoven to jazz, which built dams against the “flood of improvisation”. He reads the flowing that gives the album its name through Rousseau’s “Reveries of the Solitary Walker”, Goethe’s “Werther”, Freud’s “oceanic feeling” and Herbert Marcuse. At the piano Pepl enjoys losing himself in the moment, the notes stream out “all by themselves, as silent water or as a flow”; in “Grace & Gary” and “2 Klavierpianos” he improvised a second piano track over the first. On the titles …