GOTTSCHALK: Orchestral works

Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra;
Rosenberg, Richard;
Barrick, Melissa;
Contiguglia, John;
Contiguglia, Richard;
Draghicescu, Angela;
Gurt, Michael;
Lin, Chin-Ming;
Noggle, Anna;
Pepper, Joshua;
Taylor, Darryl;
Ziebarth, Richard

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The wonder pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, who already toured Europe as a teenager as a virtuoso concert soloist, delivers one of the most colorful chapters in American music history. Called the "Chopin of the Creoles", he was above all the first to capture the syncopated music of southern Louisiana and the Caribbean in enduring works that anticipated ragtime and jazz by half a century. His orchestral works show a composer of considerable skill who was able to create catchy and memorable melodies. This CD of all the surviving orchestral music contains several works recorded for the first time in the composer's original version, as well as the world premiere recording of La Casa del Joven Enrique. • A child prodigy pianist who was touring Europe as a virtuoso concert soloist while still a teenager, Louis Moreau Gottschalk provides one of the most colorful chapters in the history of American music. Dubbed 'the Chopin of the Creoles', he was, above all, the first to capture the syncopated music of South Louisiana and the Caribbean in enduring works that anticipate ragtime and jazz by half a century. His orchestral works show a composer of considerable skill who could create memorable and catchy tunes. Included in this disc of the complete surviving orchestral music are several works recorded for the first time in the composer's original version, as well as the world première recording of La Casa del Joven Enrique.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

04-06-2007

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