Stefano Bollani, I play Jesus Christ Superstar in my own way

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 31 - "I take the music I like, lasmonto and the reassembly, not necessarily in the same order. We offer one detail or another in complete freedom, but as this time I strongly wanted to keep the original emotional structure ". This is how Stefano Bollani recounts his new work, "Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar", a reinterpretation in his own way, in an instrumental version for piano, of the iconic soundtrack, which this year celebrates 50 years since its publication. The disc (produced by Alobar 1007, the independent label of the same pianist) was released on April 3, complete with an approval stamp by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who together with Tim relocated the ageless masterpiece. "We asked for authorization and it has been granted to us, although Lloyd Webber does not love that his music is performed differently than he thought it was. A need that, for example, also Puccini and Verdi felt. I sent him the album, now I am in waiting for his opinion, "says Bollani, on the phone from his housewife.
The choice to devote himself to Jesus Christ Superstar starts very far. "Since I was 13 or 14 and I saw the film for the first time, falling in love with it - reveals the musician -.
I know every step by heart, but only last year I decided to put myself on the piano. I chose the shape of the piano only because the love story is between the rock opera and me. And a love story grows in beauty if it remains intimate ". (ANSA).