Joplin and His Circle: Syncopated Musings / Nonken

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Label
Divine Art
Release Date
February 11, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Louis Chauvin, Scott Hayden, Scott Joplin, Charles Lamb, Arthur Marshall
    • PERFORMER
      Marilyn Nonken
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 11, 2022
    • UPC
      809730522024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DDA25220
    • LABEL
      Divine Art
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

Since the rediscovery of Scott Joplin’s ragtime genius in the 1970s his music has been an important part of the classical repertoire. Yet though he called himself with some justification “The King of Ragtime Writers” he was not a brilliant pianist; he was actually a trained violinist and cornet player and was lead singer of the Texas Medley Quartette. This wide experience helped to make his piano rags full of interest. All the same, most recordings concentrate on the most familiar works and ignore the many other superb pieces in Joplin’s substantial output. This new album from New York pianist Marilyn Nonken (Professor of Music at New York University’s Steinhardt School) includes some well-known works and some rarities. Rags, concert waltzes and other novelty pieces show brilliance and a well-honed craft. Joplin is the best known of the ragtime piano circle, but he was part of a community of composers, many of whom had short and tragic lives of poverty and ill health. While composing few works that have survived, the four represented here all collaborated with Joplin as joint composers: Louis Chauvin (1882-1908); Scott Hayden (1882-1915), Arthur Marshall (1881-1968) and the white composer Joseph Lamb (1887-1960).