U.S. Music

[Wild North]

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[The Lawspeaker]

[The Lawspeaker]

1994:

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Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Artists: Emanuele Torquati (piano)

Emanuele Torquati has won critical acclaim for his Brilliant Classics albums. According to the reviewer for Fanfare magazine, ‘Torquati’s playing is consistent, and consistently good. I would highly recommend this set to any student of Roussel.’ In partnership with Francesco Dillon, he recorded the music for cello and piano by Liszt (BC94150) and Schumann (BC94060 and BC94328), including many rare works and transcriptions. There are two previous solo albums, surveying the piano output of Roussel (BC94329) and Zemlinsky (BC95067): lesser-known Romantic composers are his speciality.

Among their number must be counted Charles Tomlinson Griffes, who was endowed with a creative vein that allowed him to produce, in the space of a decade, works for the piano that were to become a point of reference for the following generation of American composers, especially Charles Ives and Aaron Copland. Indeed, Copland paid him posthumous tribute at Harvard in 1952: ‘What he gave those of us who came after him was a sense of the adventurous in composition, of being thoroughly alive to the newest trends in world music and to the stimulus that might be derived from such contact.’

Tracklist
00:00:00 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: 3 Tone-Pictures, Op. 5: I. The Lake at Evening
00:02:52 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: 3 Tone-Pictures, Op. 5: II. The Vale of Dreams
00:06:10 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: 3 Tone-Pictures, Op. 5: III. The Night Winds
00:08:30 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Winter Landscape
00:12:47 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6: I. Barcarolle
00:19:23 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6: II. Notturno
00:25:25 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6: III. Scherzo
00:30:39 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Rhapsody in B Minor
00:38:37 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: De Profundis
00:44:50 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op. 7: I. The White Peacock
00:50:08 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op. 7: II. Nightfall - Al far della note
00:55:54 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op. 7: III. The Fountain of the Acqua Paola
00:59:45 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Roman Sketches, Op. 7: IV. Clouds
01:04:15 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata, A.85: I. Feroce – Allegretto con moto
01:10:43 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata, A.85: II. Molto tranquillo
01:13:59 Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata, A.85: III. Allegro vivace

[The Lawspeaker]

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[Creoda]

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