Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 1: American First Sonatas / Licad

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Label
Danacord
Release Date
February 2, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRIFFES MACDOWELL REINAGLE
    • PERFORMER
      Cecile Licad
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 02, 2018
    • UPC
      5709499774007
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DACOCD774
    • LABEL
      Danacord
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Alexander Reinagle

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    2. II. Allegro

      Composer: Alexander Reinagle

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    3. I. Largo maestoso - Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    4. II. Molto allegro, vivace

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    5. III. Largo con maesta

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    6. IV. Allegro eroico

      Composer: Edward MacDowell

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    7. I. Feroce: Allegretto con moto

      Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    8. II. Molto tranquillo -

      Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    9. III. Allegro viace

      Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    10. I. Fast, with firey energy

      Composer: Elie Siegmeister

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    11. II. Moderately slow, with great dignity

      Composer: Elie Siegmeister

      Performer: Cecile Licad

    12. III. Lusty and joyous

      Composer: Elie Siegmeister

      Performer: Cecile Licad


Also available in this series by pianist Cecile Licad: Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 2: American Nocturnes and Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol. 3: American Landscapes

The history of music in America is very different to a history of American music, a fact borne out by this programme of piano sonatas written between 1786 and 1944 by four American composers. Each work is the first piano sonata written by their respective creator. The stylistic richness and formal diversity of the American sonata literature are immediately apparent. Reinagle’s and MacDowell’s sonatas are American by virtue of their composers’ nationality (though a hundred years separate them, the music is unmistakably and unapologetically European in its harmonic language), while those by Griffes and Siegmeister reflect the myriad influences that subsequently contributed to and shaped a specific and distinct American musical voice.