Florian Noack – I Wanna Be Like You (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

« After several years of transcriptions devoted exclusively to Russian music, I felt the urge to explore new horizons, to tackle repertory that presented new challenges and called for new ways of approaching the piano. This was also the moment when I met and began studying with Claudio Martínez Mehner, who, among a thousand other things that I owe to him, introduced me to the Baroque repertory and taught me to love it. »

Does Florian Noack’s take on transcription smack of forbidden delights? From Bach to the Sherman Brothers, the pianist denies himself nothing, especially not the pleasure of liberally sprinkling his good humour and insolent virtuosity over these pieces of every hue. Here is a delightful album in which repertory masterpieces and unexpected musical universes come together in perfect harmony under his fingers and gain new light and life, joyful, playful, airy and poetic, thanks to the magic of his inspiration. With exquisite taste, Florian Noack’s transcriptions and paraphrases take us into a world of freedom and refinement, where novel sounds and subtleties of language are delicacies to be savoured … guilt-free!

Tracklist:
1. Florian Noack – Bach: Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): I. Allegro (03:45)
2. Florian Noack – Bach: Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): II. Largo (02:22)
3. Florian Noack – Bach: Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): III. Allegro (03:08)
4. Florian Noack – Mendelssohn: The First Walpurgis Night, Op. 60: Overture (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack) (10:43)
5. Florian Noack – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op. 35 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): I The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship (04:06)
6. Florian Noack – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op. 35 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): II. The Story of the Kalendar Prince (03:48)
7. Florian Noack – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op. 35 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess (05:16)
8. Florian Noack – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Op. 35 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): IV. Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmount (08:28)
9. Florian Noack – Strauss II: Paraphrase after different Waltzes (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack) (06:19)
10. Florian Noack – Susato: The Danserye (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): I. Pour Quoy (01:30)
11. Florian Noack – Susato: The Danserye (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): II. Dont vient cela (01:58)
12. Florian Noack – Susato: The Danserye (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): III. Den Hoboeckendans (01:02)
13. Florian Noack – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “Classical” (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): I. Allegro (04:11)
14. Florian Noack – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “Classical” (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): II. Larghetto (03:53)
15. Florian Noack – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “Classical” (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): III. Gavotte – Non troppo allegro (01:43)
16. Florian Noack – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “Classical” (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack): IV. Molto vivace (04:16)
17. Florian Noack – Shostakovich: Suite for a Variety Orchestra: Waltz No. 2 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack) (03:30)
18. Florian Noack – Sherman, Sherman: I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song, from Disney’s The Jungle Book) (Transcr. for Piano by Florian Noack) (02:30)