Music In The American Grain / Ramon Salvatore
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Music In The American Grain / Ramon Salvatore

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Composer
LAMONTAINE PALMER JOHNSON B
Artist
Ramon Salvatore
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Cedille
Released
Jan 01, 1992
Catalog #
CDR 010
UPC
735131901024

About

Pianist Ramon Salvatore, a champion of American music, harvests a program of attractive, distinctive yet neglected works by four prominent, living composers on his first recording for Cedille Records.

The disc offers debut recordings of Robert Palmer's neoclassically seasoned Third Sonata (dedicated to Salvatore) and Paul Bowles' evocative Carretera de Estepona. Other works include Bowles' Six Latin American Pieces, John LaMontaine's dramatic Piano Sonata, Op. 3, and Hunter Johnson's Piano Sonata, which The New York Times described as "an engrossing combination of Hindemith-like counterpoint and American blues."

The composers, who received advance copies of the recording, praise it robustly. Palmer notes "a clarity and understanding of every part of the work that is truly outstanding." He describes Salvatore as a "superb musician" and likens him to the late John Kirkpatrick for his dedication to popularizing neglected American masterpieces.

Bowles calls the recording of his pieces "the best I had heard." Johnson declares the recording of his Sonata "a knockout in every respect. I would call it definitive -- everything exactly right -- one by which to measure all other performances of it." To LaMontaine, it's "nothing less than stupendous."

Salvatore's interest in American music extends back into the 19th century, but he devotes this recording to "a lost generation of works" by American composers whose personal styles blossomed in the 1930s and 1940s -- styles marked by new harmonies and rhythms an ocean apart from European influences that once dominated American music.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. Vigorous and turbulent 04:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Vigorous and turbulent
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  2. 2 II. Restrained but with deep feeling 03:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Restrained but with deep feeling
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  3. 3 III. Slowly - Moderately, with increasing impetuosity 04:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Slowly - Moderately, with increasing impetuosity
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    John La Montaine
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  4. 4 I. Allegro agitatoma leggiero 07:56
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro agitatoma leggiero
    Duration
    07:56
    Composer
    Robert M. Palmer
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  5. 5 II. Canzona - Fuga - Canzona 07:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Canzona - Fuga - Canzona
    Duration
    07:09
    Composer
    Robert M. Palmer
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  6. 6 III. Scherzo - Trio (Barcarolle) - Scherzo 06:49
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Scherzo - Trio (Barcarolle) - Scherzo
    Duration
    06:49
    Composer
    Robert M. Palmer
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  7. 7 I. Allegro molto e dinamico 06:22
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro molto e dinamico
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Hunter Johnson
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  8. 8 II. Andante cantabile 06:03
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    06:03
    Composer
    Hunter Johnson
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  9. 9 III. Allegro giusto 04:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro giusto
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Hunter Johnson
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  10. 10 No. 1. Huapango No. 1 01:10
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. Huapango No. 1
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  11. 11 No. 2. Tierra Mojada 01:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Tierra Mojada
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  12. 12 No. 3. El Bejuco 00:54
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. El Bejuco
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  13. 13 No. 4. La Cuelga 01:16
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. La Cuelga
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  14. 14 No. 5. Orosi 01:55
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. Orosi
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  15. 15 No. 6. Huapango No. 2, "El Sol" 01:38
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 6. Huapango No. 2, "El Sol"
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore
  16. 16 Carretera de Estepona 02:22
    Track
    16
    Title
    Carretera de Estepona
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Paul Bowles
    Performer
    Ramon Salvatore