Label: ACT music
Format: CD
Barcode: 0614427994622
Catalog number: ACT 99462
Releasedate: 25-03-22
Format: CD
Barcode: 0614427994622
Releasedate: 25-03-22
- Live in concert at Nikolaisaal Potsdam
Iiro Rantala plays the piano with “em otional m agnetism and m usical intelligence”; he has a “virtuosic prowess as an improviser capable of enormous idiomatic and emotional range.” (Downbeat) This praise from the American magazine’s review of the Finnish pianist’s third and recent studio-recorded solo album for ACT, “My Finnish Calendar” (2019) sums up the astonishing variety which people who know his playing well might almost start to take for granted. The citation for the 2016 JTI Jazz Prize in Trier also does well to define the way audiences take him to their heart: “Rantala can sweep listeners off their feet, he can be clown and magician, charmer and virtuoso, maverick and humorist.”