Description
Tales of the Jazz Age is a solo piano recital with a thousand voices. In this flamboyant musical fresco, Florian Noack weaves together the frantic rhythms of the Roaring Twenties with the bittersweet irony of a world in flux. Between unbridled swing, refined satire, and artistic effervescence, the programme revisits a repertoire at the crossroads of classical music and jazz.
From Fats Waller to George Gershwin, from Kurt Weill to Erwin Schulhoff, each piece reveals a slice of history, a flash of festivity, or a shadow cast by the coming war. Through his own arrangements — often in world premieres — Florian Noack breathes new life into these works with infectious energy, ornamental precision, and rhythmic freedom, reinventing the spirit of the cabaret, the music hall, and the Parisian and Berlin salons of the 1920s.
More than a mere tribute, Tales of the Jazz Age is a pianistic manifesto: a dizzying dive into the contradictions of an era in metamorphosis, torn between exuberance and disillusionment, carefreeness and foreboding. Each note becomes an echo of an intoxicated world, suspended between two cataclysms.
With elegance and flair, Florian Noack invites us to dance on the embers of a bygone age, and to listen — in the crackle of an imaginary 78 rpm record — to the heartbeat of a century dreaming itself into modernity through jazz.
