Gottschalk, Gershwin, Glass, Rzewski, Barber - Murtfeld
Audite 92.702
Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid
Classical - Instrumental
Gottschalk: Pasquinade (Caprice), Op. 59; Ricordati, Op. 26; The Last Hope (Méditation Religieuse), Op. 16; Berceuse (Wiegenlied), Op. 47; The Banjo (Fantasie Grotesque), Op. 15
Gershwin: 3 Preludes
Glass: "Opening Piece" from Glassworks
Rzewski: 4 Pieces for piano (1977)
Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33 "Homage to John Field"; Piano Sonata, Op. 26
Ulrich Roman Murtfeld, piano
This SACD with compositions by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, Frederic Rzewski and Philip Glass presents a cross-section of North American piano music from 1850 to 1980. It offers the listener the possibility to become immersed in a fascinating musical cosmos which is, above all, notable for its stylistic variety. This is characteristic of American music's search for its identity from the very beginning of its history: a lack of historical references is replaced by a plethora of ethnic-social phenomena and the principle of permanent cultural exchange.
Gottschalk became an early pioneer of the „crossover" and Gershwin merged jazz and art music to form a unique entity. With his monumental Piano Sonata and the Nocturne, Samuel Barber delivered brilliant examples of a tonally and formally conservative yet powerful and compellingly individual language. In contrast, Philip Glass and Frederic Rzewski represent contemporary positions, with the extremes of minimalism and avant-gardism, of an advanced American modernism that nonetheless continues to aim towards general comprehensibility.
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- Samuel Barber: Nocturne, Op. 33 'Homage to John Field'
- Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata, Op. 26
- George Gershwin: Prelude No. 1
- George Gershwin: Prelude No. 2
- George Gershwin: Prelude No. 3
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Berceuse, Op. 47 'Wiegenlied'
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Caprice, Op. 59 'Pasquinade'
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Ricordati, Op. 26
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: The Banjo, Op. 15 'Fantasie Grotesque'
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk: The Last Hope, Op. 16 'Méditation Religieuse'
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