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"The secret is to keep cool at all times and not to get overexcited in any phase of the game. That's everything."
 
It is not by chance that the words Fyodor Dostoevsky put in the mouth of his tragic hero Alexei Ivanovich in his successful novel 
"The Gambler" ("Spieler" in German) in 1867 is also a motto for the young pianist Ludwig Hornung precisely 150 years later. 
Even if this gamble is on the 88 black and white keys and has nowhere near the self-destructive note of the protagonist, 
who loses everything in the gambler hell Roulettenburg, some parallels can still be derived. The risk of plunging into the vortex of 
a piano trio and to lose everything, resonates fundamentally in the most traditional of all band forms in jazz. For this reason, 
Hornung titled his CD under the name fraught with meaning of "Spieler" and seamlessly takes his place among the high-quality, 
choice group of Jazz thing Next Generation discoveries as number 69. Because unlike Alexei (Ivanovich), Ludwig Hornung 
knows exactly what he is getting into. The seven songs on "Spieler", which Hornung staged in the truest sense of the word 
with Phil Donkin (bass) and Bernd Oezsevim (drums), are bursting with lyrical power, mystical tension and surprising twists. 

"I do not want to make light of my music and say it must be groovy or swing. 
Whatever comes from the music is okay if it is serious and convincing. 
The demand that I put on myself, the music and the musicians is authenticity, intensity and intransigence,
regardless of whether the tenor of the composition is beautiful ugly, happy, sad or angry."

A principle that the "Spieler" Ludwig Hornung comes amazingly close to here.

(http://www.challengerecords.com/products/14962354361842/)


foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-10-01 15:23:36

Analyzed: Hornung Trio / Spieler
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR10      -0.60 dB   -13.08 dB      7:09 01-Echos
DR12      -0.60 dB   -16.85 dB      7:22 02-Im Wald
DR10      -0.60 dB   -14.22 dB      9:21 03-Der Spieler
DR11      -0.60 dB   -15.50 dB      6:52 04-Ursache und Wirkung
DR11      -0.10 dB   -13.97 dB      4:46 05-Kokolores
DR14      -0.61 dB   -20.19 dB      3:19 06-Ugly Beauty
DR9       -0.60 dB   -12.67 dB      5:18 07-Nach Hause Wanken
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Number of tracks:  7
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           1481 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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