 
An American Mirage - Exotic Piano Images by Beach, Copland, Foote, Griffes, MacDowell and Nevin
MS 1313
Digital
Stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 71'09"
Tracks: 17
Booklet pages: 8
© 2009 Ruthanne Schempf
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of An American Mirage - Exotic Piano Images by Beach, Copland, Foote, Griffes, MacDowell and Nevin published on 16 January 2010
Listen: Griffes: Allegro vivace (track 3, 0:00-0:58)
Ruthanne Schempf, piano
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920):
Piano Sonata
1 Feroce; Allegretto con moto
2 Molto tranquillo
3 Allegro vivace
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862-1901):
4 Etude in form of a romance, Op 18 No 2
5 Etude in form of a scherzo, Op 18 No 2
Athur Foote (1853-1937):
Five Poems (after Omar Khayyám) Op 41
6 Grazioso - 'Iram indeed is gone ...'
7 Allegro deciso - 'They say the Lion and the Lizard keep ...'
'Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! ...'
8 Quasi marcia: poco sostenuto - 'Think in this battered Caravanserai ...'
9 Comodo - 'A Book of Verses, underneath the Bough ...'
10 Mesto - 'Yon rising Moon that looks for us again ...'
Mrs H H A [Amy Marcy Cheney] Beach (1867-1944):
11 A hermit thrush at eve, Op 92 No 1
12 A hermit thrush at morn, Op 92 No 2
Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908):
Woodland Sketches Op 51
13 To a Wild Rose
14 Will o' the Wisp
15 At an old Trysting-Place
16 In Autumn
Aaron Copland (1900-1990):
17 Piano Variations (1930)
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