Florin Raducanu (Romania)- Fugue Fantasia for Piano
Classical-Jazz Fugue Fanstasia #2” is the second Piano Fugue addressed to both classical and jazz pianists.
In any case, the elements of Bachian Instrumental Counterpoint, jazz harmony, or compositional techniques from the developmental work serve as educational elements that show how jazz and classical music share an improvisational language (present in both Bach and Gershwin).
Like the previous “Jazz Fugue #1”, the new “Fuga Fantasia #2” follows the aesthetic path started by George Gershwin, very correctly understood by Maurice Ravel (see Sonata in G for violin and piano), Leonard Bernstein or John Williams in the creation of classical-jazz symbiosis.
The fugue was written in 2022 by pianist, composer, and professor Florin Raducanu. It is based on the concept of the symbiosis of jazz and classical/baroque music, with the Bachian contrapuntal style serving as its foundation. Thus, Raducanu proves once more that the improvisational technique, which is present in both baroque and jazz, offers the opportunity to produce a polyphonic work in a language that fuses baroque style with the nuanced vocabulary of modern jazz.