John Altman (UK) – Meditation
John Altman about his piano piece “Meditation”:
“My piece is a Wordsworthian emotion recollected in tranquility – a meditation on Beethoven and his influence and brilliance from my own sensibility formed in the 1960s by playing Beethoven and listening to the likes of Bill Evans.”
“Meditation” – in concert:
4th August 2020 – world premiere – Klavierhaus Klavins, Bonn – Susanne Kessel, piano
John Altman (*1949)
John Altman is an Emmy and BAFTA Award winning composer. He has written music for over 50 movies, over 4,000 commercials, arranged 19 Platinum Records, conducted the Royal Philharmonic and LSO, and performed as a saxophonist with many major performers on the jazz and pop scenes”
John Altman about Ludwig van Beethoven:
“To paraphrase something Jerome Kern said about Irving Berlin
‘Beethoven has no place in European music, he IS European music’ ”