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    Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes / Licad
    Danacord

    Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes / Licad

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Cecile Licad
    Released
    Nov 02, 2018
    Also available in this series by pianist Cecile Licad: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 1: America's First Sonatas and Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2: American Nocturnes

    Another release in our ongoing series of American Piano Music played by the brilliant pianist, Cecile Licad. This volume, concentrating on music inspired by the American Landscape, features many piano pieces not available in a modern digital recording and is essential to all lovers of piano music. Cecile Licad’s unique natural pianistic talent was recognized early. She began her piano studies at the age of 3 and made her debut as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines in her native Manila at 7. When she was 12 she auditioned for Rudolf Serkin and was admitted to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Ms. Licad’s international career was launched in 1981 after she had been awarded the prestigious Leventritt Gold Medal. Since then, Ms. Licad has appeared throughout the world alongside the finest symphonies and in solo recitals.

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    REVIEWS:

    It is not hard to find the overt romanticism of Franz Liszt and Joachim Raff in William Mason’s beautiful filigree ‘Silver Spring’ op.6. This was composed around 1850. The liner notes point out that the work is full of ‘delicate bravura figuration and cadenza-like flourishes.’ Mason’s piano music was at the ‘top end’ of the then fashionable salon pieces. It is stunningly played here by Cecile Licad.

    Still's A Deserted Plantation utilizes all the devices of jazz and blues. The work is moving and exhilarating at the same time. It is resourcefully played here by Cecile Licad.

    – MusicWeb International

    This third volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ is a model of imaginative program-building. On the whole, Licad’s caring and intelligent performances and the savvy program selection by David Dubal and executive producer Thomas Nickelsen augur well for future volumes.

    – Gramophone
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  • Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes / Licad

    Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes / Licad

    Danacord Nov 2018
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • Fruhling: Isasi Lieder
    IBS Classical

    Fruhling: Isasi Lieder

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Nadia Boulanger, Ingeborg Von Bronsart, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Giovanni Sgambati, Edvard Grieg
    Artist
    Vanessa Goikoetxea, Ruben Fernandez Aguirre
    Released
    May 08, 2026
    Frühling is also a project that decisively sheds light on the figure of Andrés Isasi (1890-1940), one of the most singular and underrepresented composers of early 20th-century Spain. At the heart of the album, Goikoetxea and Fernández Aguirre offer the world-premiere recording of the complete Lieder-Album op. 16, a cycle composed in Berlin in 1913 and virtually unknown until today. These fourteen songs reveal a cosmopolitan Isasi at a moment of full creative maturity, shaped by his Central European training with Engelbert Humperdinck and attuned to the late-Romantic and Jugendstil currents of his time. The cycle blends intimate lyricism, legendary evocations, decadent impulses, and a refined harmonic language of striking modernity. Works such as Ali Bey, Frühling, Die ungetreue Luise, or Vergiftet sind meine Lieder display a uniquely personal voice that bridges the German Lied tradition with Basque imagery and an advanced European sensibility that was unusual for it's time. Goikoetxea and Fernández Aguirre stand out for their elegance, their textual insight, and their ability to convey the emotional universe-at times naïve, at times shadowed, always intensely poetic-of a composer whose vocal output was long overdue for a first-rate artistic rediscovery. The programme is framed within a broader exploration of Heinrich Heine's profound impact on European music. The album is completed with lieder by Liszt, Grieg, Ives, Rubinstein, Boulanger, Backer-Grøndahl, MacDowell, Sgambatti, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composers who, like Isasi, were captivated by the emotional depth and symbolic power of the German poet.
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  • Fruhling: Isasi Lieder

    Fruhling: Isasi Lieder

    IBS Classical May 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
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  • Simply Summer

    Simply Summer

    Sony Masterworks May 2006
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.98
    1. Imagination / Raphaela Gromes
    2. Imagination / Raphaela Gromes
    Sony Masterworks

    Imagination / Raphaela Gromes

    CD · 1 disc

    $11.98
    Artist
    Raphaela Gromes
    Released
    Oct 08, 2021

    Raphaela Gromes has received acclaim for her highly virtuoso, brilliant and passionately expressive cello playing. What also distinguishes this exceptional musician is her enjoyment of the musical treasure hunt. With her last Sony Classical releases, she delighted critics and audiences with world premiere recordings of pieces by Richard Strauss and Julius Klengel. Her "Offenbach" album received the Opus Klassik Award 2020. For her new album “Imagination”, Raphaela chose imaginative music, music based on stories, on fairy tales. The wide selection includes a waltz from Tchaikovsky's ballet music "Sleeping Beauty," a "Fairy Tale Narration" by Robert Schumann, the "Evening Prayer" from Humperdinck's popular fairy tale opera "Hansel and Gretel", Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" and other dreamy, magical and highly poetic pieces by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886). "Imagination" also presents less-known works by David Popper, Paul Juon, and rarities like "Märchenstunde" by the composer Margarete Schweikert, and "Forgotten Fairy Tales" by the New Yorker Edward McDowell.

    Most of the pieces are newly arranged by Raphaela's duo-partner Julian Riem for violoncello and piano, but also for piano trio and for complementary harp and saxophone quartet. Raphaela Gromes recorded the arrangements with Julian Riem and musician friends such as Daniels Dodds (violin), Arcis Saxophone Quartet and Anaïs Gaudemard (harp). Raphaela Gromes came up with the idea for this album during a hike in the spring of 2020 - when she came across a particularly enchanted place in a forest at dusk. "The sky was reflected in the pond, and the backlighting caused a magic glow to emerge around the reeds and flowers, as if elves and fairies were floating in the light above the water", Gromes says: "The "Dance of the Elves" by David Popper came into my mind. I was immediately inspired and full of energy, and when I got home, I immediately went in search of more music that would take me into the world of magic and fantasy." The album ends with "The Shire" from "Lord of the Rings" and "Leia's theme" from Star Wars are both recorded in a new cover version for cello and piano.

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  • Imagination / Raphaela Gromes

    Imagination / Raphaela Gromes

    Sony Masterworks Oct 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.98
  • Romance - Greatest Hits

    Romance - Greatest Hits

    Sony Masterworks Aug 1995
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.98
    1. Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano
    2. Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano
    SOMM Recordings

    Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Peter Dickinson
    Released
    Nov 19, 2021
    SOMM Recordings announces the perfect escape from Lockdown Blues with a collection of appealing piano miniatures compiled and performed by Peter Dickinson to chase all your cares away. Lockdown Blues includes soothing masterpieces by Erik Satie (Trois Gnossiennes, Trois Gymnopédies), Francis Poulenc (Bal fantôme, Pastourelle) and Edward MacDowell (To a Wild Rose), alongside Eugene Goossens' melancholic Lament for a Departed Doll and Samuel Barber's valedictory Canzonetta. There is whimsy in George Gershwin's Three-Quarter Blues (familiar to British audiences as the theme to radio and television's After Henry) and Who Cares? from the musical Of Thee I Sing. Of interest are 12 iconic jazz tunes by Duke Ellington. Heard here in their original sheet-music versions, they are pure Ellington, the product of a sophisticated composer. Among featured classic songs are Solitude, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing). In his introduction, renowned broadcaster and writer Humphrey Burton describes Lockdown Blues as 'a delightful hour of discovery', hailing the Ellington selections as 'a real find that will surely be much anthologized long after Lockdown has been forgotten'. The disc is completed by three pieces by Dickinson - the titular Lockdown Blues, Freda's Blues and Blue Rose, a take on MacDowell's To a Wild Rose - together with Constant Lambert's Elegiac Blues, Lennox Berkeley's Prelude VI and John Cage's Satie-influenced In a Landscape. Peter Dickinson's career as a pianist has largely been in recitals, broadcasts and recordings with his sister, mezzo Meriel Dickinson, and he has worked with many other performers. Dickinson's Paraphrase II is included on Nathan Williamson's 20th-century British piano music collection, Colour and Light (SOMMCD 0196) and was praised by the British Music Society as 'a Theme with six hugely contrasting variations exploring the outer edges of tonality in a brilliant, structurally refined way'.
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  • Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano

    Lockdown Blues / Peter Dickinson, piano

    SOMM Recordings Nov 2021
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
  • Shenandoah - An American Chorister 1890-1990 / Rutenberg

    Shenandoah - An American Chorister 1890-1990 / Rutenberg

    Klavier Jan 1994
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    1. Claudette Sorel Rediscovered
    2. Claudette Sorel Rediscovered
    Sorel Classics

    Claudette Sorel Rediscovered

    CD · 2 discs

    $19.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Sorel, Buckley, Autori, Korn
    Released
    Oct 15, 2021
    The present release is a commemorative edition of two albums by the pianist Claudette Sorel featuring selected works for solo piano and three American Piano Concerti. Claudette Sorel was one of America’s most notable female pianists of all time. Born in 1932 in Paris, upon the Nazi invasion of France she moved with her family to New York, where she studied at the Juilliard School with Olga Samaroff-Stokowski. She was renowned throughout her live as a brilliant pianist, educator, author, philanthropist, and advocate for women in music. “Claudette Sorel is in the front-rank of American pianists... She has spirit, tone and technique. She can just about make the piano sit up and do tricks... Her playing has amazing personality.” (Harold C. Schonberg, The New York Times)
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  • Claudette Sorel Rediscovered

    Claudette Sorel Rediscovered

    Sorel Classics Oct 2021
    2 discs
    CD
    $19.99
  • 1951

    1951

    JUST A MEMORY Sep 1995
    1 disc
    CD
    $12.99
    • American Classics - A Sampler
    Naxos

    American Classics - A Sampler

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.99 $19.99 Save 50%
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Boris, Adele, Berman, Eteri, Anthony, Marin, Andjaparidze, Alsop
    Released
    Jun 01, 2001
    American music is culturally diverse and exciting, mirroring all the best America has to offer. The last two centuries have seen an extraordinary flowering of musical life in the United States. In recognition of the many gifted American men and women of music, Naxos is pleased to present the American Classic Series.

    When complete, this series will consist of over 200 titles, exploring the full spectrum of American concert music. All the familiar names are there: Copland, Ives, Grofé, Barber, and Sousa but so are many others such as: Bennett, Dédé, Foote, McKay, and Siegmeister all of whom have contributed to the rich musical tapestry that is American.

    All of us at Naxos invite you to journey with us as we set out to discover America.


    Click Here for the complete Naxos American Classic Series

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  • American Classics - A Sampler
    Sale

    American Classics - A Sampler

    Naxos Jun 2001
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99 $9.99Save 50%
  • FAIREY BAND: Brass Favourites

    FAIREY BAND: Brass Favourites

    Chandos Feb 1991
    1 disc
    CD
    $6.99
    1. Music Of A Bygone Era / Frank Glazer
    2. Music Of A Bygone Era / Frank Glazer
    Bridge Records

    Music Of A Bygone Era / Frank Glazer

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Frank Glazer
    Released
    Jun 06, 2006
    Frank Glazer's rich and varied musical life as touring virtuoso, teacher, music director, television host, annotator, and much else is enough for five careers. The 91-year-old pianist's long resume includes everything from studies with Schnabel and Schoenberg to playing in vaudeville houses and, believe it or not, the Icelandic premiere of Brahms' second piano concerto. At 85, he recorded a recital of once-fashionable/now-frowned-upon encores, the type of repertoire Arthur Loesser used to call "cream of corn". Few pianists today have a genuine feeling for such pieces, save, of course, Earl Wild (Glazer's slightly younger contemporary) and perhaps Stephen Hough or Marc-André Hamelin. However, Glazer's beautiful, robust tone and innate charm are exactly what this music needs.

    The disc opens with a curvaceous and ravishingly sung out account of Mendelssohn's Spring Song, followed by Alfred Grünfeld's pretty if overlong Romanze and Grieg's Papillon, which is fuller in body and less cameo-like than we often hear. Glazer pays heed to the inner voices in Godowsky's Alt-Wien, although it doesn't quite attain the tonal magic of Shura Cherkassky's recently reissued 1974 recording. Although Sinding's Rustle of Spring, Moszkowski's E major Waltz, and Rubinstein's Melody in F would benefit from a lighter touch and more rippling accompanimental figures, Glazer's legato scales and subtle tonal shadings--using remarkably little pedal--in Liadov's Musical Snuff-Box are worthy of the old Hofmann and Rosenthal recordings.

    Rubinstein's Kamennoi-Ostrow moves too slowly to sustain the music's bland harmonic appeal, while Paderewski's Menuet in G and Macdowell's Witches Dance are a shade heavy-handed and lacking in élan. Glazer accommodates the prevalent thick textures of Dohnanyi's "Nalia" transcription by taking overly slow tempos, yet the pianist's sustaining power prevents them from sounding labored. On the other hand, Glazer's fingers sound 60 years younger in Stephen Heller's fluffy transcription of Schubert's "The Trout", while Liszt's Third Liebestraume is direct, elegant, and free of treacle. All told, a lovely disc.

    --Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
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  • Music Of A Bygone Era / Frank Glazer

    Music Of A Bygone Era / Frank Glazer

    Bridge Records Jun 2006
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    1. The Birth of 'Rhapsody in Blue' [2 CDs]
    2. The Birth of 'Rhapsody in Blue' [2 CDs]
    Nimbus

    The Birth of 'Rhapsody in Blue' [2 CDs]

    CD · 2 discs

    $20.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Davis, Castleman, Hodgkinson, Peress
    Released
    Sep 06, 2019

    The selections Whiteman included in the 1924 Aeolian Hall Concert, which had that curious title An Experiment in Modern Music, were divided into various sections, such as The True Form of Jazz and Recent Compositions with Modern Score. The intention was that together they would be audible proof that jazz-inspired music had come of age. These performances of Gershwin classics and hard-to-find rarities capture the 1920's and 30's jazz age style and offers a gamut of lesser known keyboard works, as well as Gershwin's only known works for violin and piano and for string quartet. The three orchestral works include Mr. Peress' theater orchestration of Gershwin's Strike Up the Band Overture, and the I've Got Rhythm Variations recorded in its original orchestration for the first time.

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  • The Birth of 'Rhapsody in Blue' [2 CDs]

    The Birth of 'Rhapsody in Blue' [2 CDs]

    Nimbus Sep 2019
    2 discs
    CD
    $20.99
  • Richards, Jonathan: Forever (30 Romantic Guitar Miniatures)

    Richards, Jonathan: Forever (30 Romantic Guitar Miniatures)

    Diversions Oct 2006
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.99
    1. If I Were A Bird - A Piano Aviary / Michael Lewin
    2. If I Were A Bird - A Piano Aviary / Michael Lewin
    Sono Luminus

    If I Were A Bird - A Piano Aviary / Michael Lewin

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    RAMEAU HOFMANN GRIFFES MACD
    Artist
    Michael Lewin
    Released
    Mar 30, 2010

    Taking a cue from a plethora of existing poetry and musical works, pianist Michael Lewin has included many bird selections in his recent concert programs, and their overwhelming public acceptance inspired the creation of this soaring musical collection. Compiling them into this album, If I Were a Bird contains enjoyable and rare works, some of which have not been previously recorded. The album is concluded by Stravinsky's Firebird Suite in the rarely heard and fiendishly difficult solo piano transcription by Guido Agosti.

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  • If I Were A Bird - A Piano Aviary / Michael Lewin

    If I Were A Bird - A Piano Aviary / Michael Lewin

    Sono Luminus Mar 2010
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge - Complete solo recordings
    APR

    Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge - Complete solo recordings

    CD · 2 discs

    $21.99
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Cecile Chaminade, Frederic Chopin, Cla
    Artist
    Olga Samaroff, Frank La Forge
    Released
    Jun 28, 2024
    OLGA SAMAROFF (1880-1948) and FRANK LA FORGE (1879-1953) were amongst the earliest pianists to record for the US Victor label, both making most of their discs in the acoustic era before 1925. Though American, both went to Europe to study - Samaroff to the Paris Conservatoire and La Forge to Leschetizky in Vienna. Samaroff was the greater virtuoso, as can be heard in her famous recording of Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries', but after a fall, in 1926 she retired to an equally successful teaching career at the Juilliard School, her pupils including William Kapell, Raymond Lewenthal and Rosalyn Tureck amongst many others. La Forge gravitated towards accompanying and went on to record hundreds of discs for Victor in that capacity. His discs as soloist include some of the earliest attempts to record concerted works.
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  • Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge - Complete solo recordings

    Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge - Complete solo recordings

    APR Jun 2024
    2 discs
    CD
    $21.99
  • Story Of American Classical Music (The)

    Story Of American Classical Music (The)

    Naxos Jun 2005
    2 discs
    CD
    $21.99
  • A Bride's Guide To Wedding Music

    A Bride's Guide To Wedding Music

    Naxos Feb 2002
    3 discs
    CD
    $27.99
  • American Classics - MacDowell: Piano Music Vol 1 /Barbagallo
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    American Classics - MacDowell: Piano Music Vol 1 /Barbagallo

    Naxos Oct 1999
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
    • American Classics - MacDowell: Suites, Hamlet & Ophelia
    Naxos

    American Classics - MacDowell: Suites, Hamlet & Ophelia

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    MACDOWELL
    Artist
    Takuo, Yuasa
    Released
    Feb 01, 2001
    I'll say one thing: Naxos gives great notes. Reacting against Dvorák's suggestion that American composers look to Negro Spirituals and other ethnic music for inspiration, Edward MacDowell retorted:


    "Purely national music has no place in art. What Negro melodies have to do with Americanism still remains a mystery to me. Why cover a beautiful thought with the badge of slavery rather than with the stern but at least manly and free rudeness of the North American Indian...? What we must arrive at is the youthful optimistic vitality and the undaunted tenacity of spirit that characterizes the American Man."


    So speaks the true voice of the oppressor. Really, a nicer guy never got run over by a horse-drawn cab. Still, this little extract teaches us two useful lessons. First, what a composer says about music in general doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what he actually writes. After all, "youthful optimistic vitality" and "undaunted tenacity of spirit" are about the last qualities that come to mind when listening to the pieces on this disc--more like faux Mendelssohn with a Liszt spritzer. Second, the fact that a composer may not be particularly agreeable, or even especially intelligent, doesn't detract from the purely musical value of his output (if any, of course).


    MacDowell's two suites for orchestra have waited a long time to appear on CD, and the fact that they may not be all that audacious or exciting does not detract from their considerable charm, attractive fund of melody, and apt scoring. Takuo Yuasa and the Ulster Orchestra lavish genuine care on these pieces, playing with real dedication and more than enough sympathy to justify the composer's pride in the Indian Suite's "Dirge" as one of his finest achievements. The Second Suite is, in fact, a very substantial work that does not deserve its obscurity. And yet we have to wonder just what a composer whose music was approvingly described in his own lifetime as "agreeably free of the fevers of sex" could make of Hamlet & Ophelia; and whatever the music's qualities, let us just say that it fully lives up (if that's the word) to MacDowell's chaste reputation. As noted, Naxos' documentation is exceptional, and the sound fine.
    --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
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  • American Classics - MacDowell: Suites, Hamlet & Ophelia
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    American Classics - MacDowell: Suites, Hamlet & Ophelia

    Naxos Feb 2001
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
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