Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1
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COLON NANCARROW
Nancarrow: Pieces for Small Orchestra / Tango? / String Quartet No. 1
Mia Wu (violin) Mark Steinberg (violin) Rachel Evans (viola) Maria Kitsopoulos, cello / Cheryl Seltzer (piano) Joel Sachs (piano) etc
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 August 2005
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The United States has spawned numerous composers so original that they were initially rejected as eccentrics. Among the best known are Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. For many years, rumours told of another such musician, Conlon Nancarrow. Secluded in Mexico, he was said to be composing some of the most explosive music of the century...
Tracks:
01. Piece No. 1 for Small Orchestra 07:01
02. Toccata for Violin and Player Piano 01:38
03. Prelude and Blues 03:22
04. Study No. 15 (trans. Y. Mikhashoff) 01:13
05. Tango? 02:49
Sonatina (trans. Y. Mikhashoff)
06. I. Presto 01:29
07. II. Moderato 01:47
08. III. Allegro molto 01:33
09. Trio Movement 02:41
String Quartet No. 1
10. I. Allegro molto 02:40
11. II. Andante moderato 03:15
12. III. Prestissimo 04:43
13. Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra 10:31
