A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music
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LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music
Steven Mayer (piano)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 3 September 2015
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first important American composer to fuse European classical piano music with American cultural influences, including folk music, the music of slaves, and Latin American dances. Although still revered for his anticipation of elements of Ragtime and Harlem Stride Piano, he owed his greatest musical debt to Chopin. On this recording we hear memorable and catchy tunes as well as considerable harmonic ingenuity. It includes some of his finest pieces, such as the deliciously Gallic Pasquinade, the wonderfully expressive Le Banjo and Steven Mayer's solo piano arrangement of La Nuit des Tropiques.
Tracks:
Le banjo - fantaisie grotesque, Op. 15 (RO22)
The Last Hope Religious meditation RO133 (Op 16) 1854
Pasquinade, caprice, Op. 59
Berceuse, RO27 (Op 47) 1860
Grande Fantaisie triomphale sur l'hymne national brésilien RO108 (Op 69) 1869
Le songe d'une nuit d'été Caprice élégante RO240 (Op 9)
Fantôme de bonheur (Illusions perdues) Caprice RO94 (Op 36)
Reflets du passé RO223 (Op 28)
Symphony No. 1, D.104 'La nuit des tropiques'
