Naxos
American Classics - Siegmeister: Piano Music Vol 2 / Boulton
$9.99
Details
- Composer
- SIEGMEISTER
- Artist
- Kenneth, Boulton
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Aug 01, 1999
- Catalog #
- 8559021
- UPC
- 636943902127
About
If you're encountering the late American, New York born composer Elie Siegmeister for the first time, skip the first five tracks for now. Cue up Track Six to his gritty, uncompromising 1964 Second Sonata. The one movement work commences with stabbing, isolated pitches. These work their way into petulant clusters and stark, flickering triads. Leaping rhythmic patterns forge a grim, motoric path of no return, on which teasing jazz flourishes and starburst, two-handed arpeggios provide breezy relief. Siegmeister's predilection for granitic sonorities and bleak lyricism informs both his early 1932 Theme & Variations and his notey, rigorous Third Sonata from 1979. Five movements from the 1985 suite "These Shores" depict a quintet of American writers, whose identities are difficult to decipher without a score card. Yet this composer could write simple, accessible music too. Turn now to the opening "Sunday in Brooklyn" suite, a five movement work laced with wistful tunes and gentle, wrong-note Gershwinisms. This is music that deserves to be played much more than it is. One regrets that the composer, who died in 1991, didn't live to hear pianist Kenneth Boulton's dynamically charged, fiercely committed, and brilliantly virtuosic performances. He would have been delighted.--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
Tracklist 15 tracks
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1 I Prospect Park 04:17
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I Prospect Park
- Duration
- 04:17
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
- Performer
- Kenneth Boulton
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2 II Sunday Driver 03:05
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II Sunday Driver
- Duration
- 03:05
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
- Performer
- Kenneth Boulton
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3 III Family at Home 04:25
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III Family at Home
- Duration
- 04:25
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
- Performer
- Kenneth Boulton
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4 IV Children's Story 01:21
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV Children's Story
- Duration
- 01:21
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
- Performer
- Kenneth Boulton
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5 V Coney Island 04:15
- Track
- 5
- Title
- V Coney Island
- Duration
- 04:15
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
- Performer
- Kenneth Boulton
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6 Moderato-Allegro-Piu mosso-Allegro, molto ritmico-Allegro-Poco meno mosso-Meno mosso di Tempo I-Allegro meno mosso-Adagio-Tempo 11:31
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Moderato-Allegro-Piu mosso-Allegro, molto ritmico-Allegro-Poco meno mosso-Meno mosso di Tempo I-Allegro meno mosso-Adagio-Tempo
- Duration
- 11:31
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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7 Theme and Variations No. 1 10:11
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Theme and Variations No. 1
- Duration
- 10:11
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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8 I Allegretto, molto energico 06:11
- Track
- 8
- Title
- I Allegretto, molto energico
- Duration
- 06:11
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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9 II Adagio, liberamente 05:30
- Track
- 9
- Title
- II Adagio, liberamente
- Duration
- 05:30
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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10 III Adagio - Allegro con fuoco 05:21
- Track
- 10
- Title
- III Adagio - Allegro con fuoco
- Duration
- 05:21
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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11 I Whitman 04:12
- Track
- 11
- Title
- I Whitman
- Duration
- 04:12
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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12 II Mark Twain 01:35
- Track
- 12
- Title
- II Mark Twain
- Duration
- 01:35
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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13 III Thoreau 04:03
- Track
- 13
- Title
- III Thoreau
- Duration
- 04:03
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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14 IV Langston Hughes 02:36
- Track
- 14
- Title
- IV Langston Hughes
- Duration
- 02:36
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister
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15 V Faulkner 03:12
- Track
- 15
- Title
- V Faulkner
- Duration
- 03:12
- Composer
- Elie Siegmeister