Utwory na płycie:

• Pasquinade (Caprice), Op. 59 (
• Ricordati, Op. 26 (Gottschalk)
• The Last Hope (MĂ©ditation Rel
• Berceuse (Cradle Song), Op. 47
• The Banjo (Fantaisie Grotesque
• Three Preludes - I. Allegro be
• Three Preludes - II. Andante c
• Three Preludes - III. Allegro
• ‘Opening Piece’ from ‘Gl
• Piano Piece No. 4 (Rzewski)
• Nocturne, Op. 33 ‘Hommage to
• Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 - I.
• Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 - II.
• Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 - III
• Sonata for Piano, Op. 26 - IV.

GEORGE GERSHWIN :
Three Preludes

SAMUEL BARBER :
Sonata for Piano, Op. 26

REDERIC RZEWSKI:
Piano Piece nr 4

LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK:
The Last Hope
Ricordati
Pasquinade
Berceuse
The Banjo

SAMUEL BARBER:
Nocturne
Sonata for piano op. 26

PHILIP GLASS:
‘Opening Piece’ from ‘Glassworks’

?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 This is characteristic of American music's search for its identity from the very beginning of its history: a lack of historical references is replaced by a plethora of ethnic-social phenomena and the principle of permanent cultural exchange.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.