Rzewski: Four North American Ballads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

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Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, etc.

Rzewski:

The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

(36 Variations on ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!)

Four North American Ballads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Ralph van Raat (piano)

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! By the left-wing composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski is a landmark in American piano literature. The work comprises 36 variations on a protest song of the same name by the Chilean composer Sergio Ortega. Almost every bar is laden with pianistic virtuosity, yet the listener is carried through some very complex music in a wholly natural way. The variations themselves all symbolize the different phases and aspects of a struggle: from angry, highly-energized modernism, via melancholic references to blues, calculated dense polyphony and nostalgic folk-music to written-out free jazz passages.

“Frederic Rzewski's sequence of 36 variations on the song by Chilean composer Sergio Ortega, was composed in 1975 for his own wonderful pianism. Ralph van Raat responds to these demands in impressive style. His delivery of Winsboro Cotton Mill Blues, too, legitimately links this eruptive piece to the driving toccata style of Prokofiev.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 ****

“Here we have a budget-price contender from Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat, whose seasoned new-music credentials, virtuoso technique and natural affinity for Rzewski's multi-faceted keyboard-writing are evident in nearly every section.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2008

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More than Classical

More than Classical

Barber, S:

Excursions No. 3

Falla:

Ritual Fire Dance (from El amor brujo)

Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue

(for solo piano)

Kodály:

Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11

Kosma:

Autumn Leaves

Jonathan Lemalu (baritone)

Rzewski:

Four North American Ballads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Waller:

Viper's Drag

Gloria Saarinen (piano)

Doremi - DDR71143

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Ralph Van Raat

Ralph Van Raat

Adams, J:

Phrygian Gates for solo piano

American Berserk (2001)

China Gates

Hallelujah Junction

Bolcom:

Violin Sonata No. 2: II. Brutal, fast

Corea:

Children's Songs (excerpts)

Nos. XI, XVII & XX

Duruflé:

Hommage à Jean Gallon ('Chant Donné')

Ives, C:

Psalm 90

Lindberg, M:

Musik för Två Pianon

with Maarten van Veen (piano II)

Klavierstück

Tre Pianostycke

Play I

with Maarten van Veen (piano II)

Twine

Jubilees

Etude No. 1

Etude No. 2

Messiaen:

L'ascension: I. Majeste du Christ demandant sa gloire a son Pere

Nancarrow:

Toccata for Violin and Player Piano

Rautavaara:

Apotheosis

Rzewski:

The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Four North American Ballads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Takemitsu:

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

Tavener:

Zodiacs

Ypakoë

Palin

Mandoodles

Pratirupa

In Memory of Two Cats

Ralph Van Raat (piano)

This special box contains all four of Ralph Van Raat’s Naxos recordings plus an exclusive interview CD which includes music selected by Ralph specifically for this boxed set.

Also on this bonus CD, Ralph speaks about his musical choices for the set, as well as his own playing in an exclusive interview with Naxos Classical Music Spotlight’s very own Raymond Bisha.

Featured composers include: Tavener, Adams, Rzewski, Lindberg, Takemitsu, Ives, Bolcom, Messiaen, and more.

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