Yvar Mikhashoff
Panorama of American Piano Music
Player | Yvar Mikhashoff |
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Conductor | |
Composer | VA |
Label | MODE |
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Catalog | MODE262 |
Format | CD |
Discs | 4 |
Category | Contemporary Music |
Street Date | 2014-01-28 |
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CD 1
Charles IVES (1874-1954)
1. Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840-60” (1911-15)
– III. The Alcotts 7:08
Leo ORNSTEIN (1893-2002)
2. Suicide in an Airplane (c. 1916) 4:42
Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES (1884-1920)
3-5. Three Preludes (1919) 7:30
Percy GRAINGER (1882-1961)
6. In a Nutshell – III. Pastorale (1916) 11:47
Aaron COPLAND (1900-90)
7-9. Three Sonnets (1918-19) 7:54
FIRST RECORDING of 1 & 3
Henry COWELL (1897-1965)
10. Amiable Conversation (1917) 1:02
Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
11. Valse pour les petits lecteurs du Figaro (1917) 1:04
12-15. George ANTHEIL (1900-59)
Sonata: Death of Machines (1922) 2:03
Ernest BLOCH (1880-1959)
16. Poems of the Sea – II. Chanty (1922) 3:59
FIRST RECORDING
George GERSHWIN (1898-1937)
17. Impromptu in Two Keys (1924) 1:15
Edward Elzear “Zez” CONFREY (1895-1971)
18. Nickel in the Slot (1923) 2:36
Dane RUDHYAR (1895-1985)
19. Third Pentagram (Release) – IV. Stars (1926) 3:56
Wallingford RIEGGER (1885-1961)
20. Blue Voyage, Op. 6 (1927) 8:16
Henry BRANT (1913-2008)
21. Music for a Five and Dime (1932) 2:56
Ruth CRAWFORD SEEGER (1901-53)
22. Nine Preludes – No. 6 (1924-28) 3:17
Paul BOWLES (1910-99)
23. Sonatina Fragmentaria (1933) 4:52
FIRST RECORDING
Conlon NANCARROW (1912-97)
24. Prelude & Blues – Blues (c. 1935) 2:32
John CAGE (1912-92)
25. Quest (1935) 1:10
CD 2
Ernst KRENEK (1900-91)
1. Twelve Short Piano Pieces, Op. 83 – VI. A Boat Slowly Sailing (1938) 2:43
Otto LUENING (1900-96)
2. Six Preludes – Prelude No. 4 (1938-51) 2:15
Roger SESSIONS (1896-1985)
3. From My Diary, No. 3 (1938) 2:06
Virgil THOMSON (1896-1989)
4. Souvenir: Portrait of Paul Bowles (1935) 0:58
FIRST RECORDING
Aaron COPLAND (1900-90)
5. The Resting Place on the Hill, from Our Town (1940) 5:04
Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918-90)
Seven Anniversaries (1943, rev. 1954) 2:30
6. I. For Aaron Copland 1:44
7. VII. For William Schuman 0:46
Carl RUGGLES (1876-1971)
8-10. Evocations (1934-43, rev. 1954), movements I, II, IV 10:55
Roy HARRIS (1898-1979)
11. American Ballads – I. Streets of Laredo (1946) 2:26
Morton GOULD (1913-96)
12. Prelude & Toccata – Prelude (1945) 2:26
John CAGE (1912-92)
13. In a Landscape (1948) 9:06
George ANTHEIL (1900-59)
14-16. Valentine Waltzes (1949) 7:15
Virgil THOMSON (1896-1989)
17. For a Happy Occasion (1951) 0:19
Earle BROWN (1926-2002)
18. Three Pieces – No. 2 (1951) 1:45
Mel POWELL (1923-1998)
19. Etude (1957) 2:21
La Monte YOUNG (b. 1935)
20. Study No. 2 (1959) 0:46 FIRST RECORDING
21. Sarabande (1959, rev. 1980) 3:14 FIRST RECORDING FOR PIANO
Peggy GLANVILLE-HICKS (1912-90)
22. Prelude for a Pensive Pupil (1958) 3:02
CD 3
Morton FELDMAN (1926-87)
1. Vertical Thoughts 4 (1963) 3:36
Alan HOVHANESS (1911-2000)
2-4. Five Visionary Landscapes Op. 214 (1965), movements I, II, III 10:39
Frank ZAPPA (1940-93)
5. Piano Introduction to “Little House I Used to Live In” (1970) 3:15
Mario DAVIDOVSKY (b. 1934)
6. Synchronisms No. 6 for piano & tape (1970) 7:19
George CRUMB (b. 1929)
7. Makrokosmos, Vol. 2 – VII. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica)
(Scorpio) (1973) 2:23
Lou HARRISON (1917-2003)
8. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen (1977) 2:28
Joan TOWER (b. 1938)
9. Red Garnet Waltz (1977) 3:27
John CAGE (1912-92)
10. 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1977) – 1st realization 0:17
11. 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1977) – 2nd realization 1:13
Tom CONSTANTEN (b. 1944)
12. Dejavalse (1977) 2:57
Robert MORAN (b. 1937)
13. Valse “In Memoriam Maurice Ravel” (1976) 1:56
Philip GLASS (b. 1937)
14. Modern Love Waltz (1977) 2:51
Frederic RZEWSKI (b. 1938)
15. Four Piano Pieces – No. 4 (1977) 9:29
Christian WOLFF (b. 1934)
16. Prelude No. 5 (1981) 4:15
James SELLARS (b. 1943)
Nocturnes (1981) 10:18
17. I. Spanish Dreams 4:17
18. II. French Dreams 2:14
19. III. American Dreams 3:47
Ross Lee FINNEY (1906-97)
20. Youth’s Companion – V. Riddle Song (1981) 2:55
FIRST RECORDING
CD 4
Philip GLASS (b. 1937)
1. Opening (1981) 5:21
Lukas FOSS (1922-2009)
2. Solo (1981) 13:04
Alvin CURRAN (b. 1938)
3. For Cornelius (1982) 13:47
John CAGE (1912-92)
4. Souvenir (1983) 7:03
FIRST RECORDING FOR PIANO
Nils VIGELAND (b. 1950)
5. Nocturne: The Sensualist, Dying, Recalls His Protestant Youth (1987) 3:13
Stephen PAULUS (b. 1949)
6. Dance (1987) 2:03
Kamran INCE (b. 1960)
7. My Friend Mozart (1987) 4:11
Joseph SCHWANTNER (b. 1943)
8. Veiled Autumn (Kindertodeslied) (1987) 4:20
Otto LUENING (1900-96)
9. Song Without Words (1987) 2:58
Alvin SINGLETON (b. 1940)
10. Changing Faces (1970/1987) 1:56
FIRST RECORDING
Lou HARRISON (1917-2003)
11. A Summerfield Set – I. Sonata (1988) 5:18
Conlon NANCARROW (1912-97)
12-14. Three Two-Part Studies (c. 1935, premiered by
Yvar Mikhashoff in 1991) 3:29