{"product_id":"thomas-enhco_mozart-paradox_2025_son","title":"Mozart Paradox","description":"What if Mozart, the most beloved composer of all time, came back to life today?\nAfter his explorations of the repertoires of Bach, Schumann, and Brahms, Thomas Enhco continues to build bridges between jazz and classical music, this time delving into the immense work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as part of an album titled \"Mozart Paradox.\" On solo piano, he improvises with complete freedom on the timeless themes Mozart offered in genres as varied as the sonata, symphony, string quartet, concerto, sacred music, and opera.\nA jazzman of the highest order, Thomas Enhco is also an accomplished classical soloist, regularly invited by symphony orchestras worldwide to perform concertos by Mozart, Ravel, and Gershwin.\nIn 2022, his improvisation on the \"Lacrimosa\" from the famous Requiem left a lasting impression and marked the starting point for this solo piano project full of surprises, revisiting beloved themes in a modern, intimate way, brimming with the fire and freshness characteristic of the most cherished of composers.\nThomas Enhco summarizes \"Mozart Paradox\" as follows:\n\"Mozart has been with me since childhood. I heard my mother sing his opera arias and my grandfather conduct his symphonies. On the violin (my first instrument) I worked on sonatas, concertos, and duets; on the piano, fantasies, chamber music, and concertos, some of which I had the opportunity to play in concert in recent years. Yet, as a jazz musician, I had never before drawn upon his work for improvisation, as I had done with Bach, Brahms, or Schumann.\nLast September, I went into the studio for three days and started recording improvisations, but something wasn't right; I doubted myself more and more as the takes accumulated; we then decided to invite about ten people to attend a private concert in the studio, two nights in a row. It was much more natural for me to play this spontaneous music for a flesh-and-blood audience, and what is recorded on this album largely comes from those two concerts.\nThis album is entirely jazz for me, in its essence (improvisation, rhythms, harmonies, the way of varying around a theme as in the tradition of jazz standards). Moreover, it's a solo piano album, without any other instrument or effect, but which attempts to summon, as in all of Mozart's music, opera singers and theatrical characters.\"","brand":"Thomas Enhco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55313105387864,"sku":null,"price":20250606.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0198029096019_9edf8a8b-db72-44c6-8394-b57bae34811a.jpg?v=1765824594","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/thomas-enhco_mozart-paradox_2025_son","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}