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The American Pianists Association was founded in New York City in 1979 by Tony Habig and Victor Borge. Its mission is to discover and support young world-class pianists through competitions, performance tours and educational programmes.Winners receive assistance for two years, including a cash award and career services valued at $75,000. Currently, the APA awards three Fellowships: The DeHaan Classical Fellow; the Max I. Allen Classical Fellow; and the Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass
The opulent and sensual expressiveness in these composers’ works has long been obscured by more turbulent developments in music of the 20th century. One of Deems Taylor’s most successful compositions, Through the Looking Glass celebrates Alice in Wonderland, each of its five sections corresponding to passages or episodes from this enchanting tale. Influenced by the German Romantics and French Impressionists, Charles Tomlinson Griffes’ rich harmonic palette and orchestral colors can be heard in the Poem written for flutist Georges Barrère, the landscapes of the Three Tone Pictures and poetry of The White Peacock, while Kubla Khan and the Bacchanale share exotic oriental inspiration. | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | American Tapestry
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| |  | American ImpressionsPiano Music by American composers
Contrasting music rooted, like American painting of the late nineteenth century, in the European and American traditions: Charles Griffes was the first American "Impressionist" composer. Edward Macdowell took the American landscape and scenes as his inspiration. Both studied in Europe before returning to their native land to begin distinctive musical careers as American composers. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Off the beaten trackPiano Rarities
Bartók: | Pe loc (No 3 from Romanian Folk Dances) | Cui: | Causerie (Etude), Op. 40 No. 6 | Driver: | Doll's Lullaby (from Seven Blakemore Poems) First recording Sarabande First recording | Fauré: | Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 arr. Grainger | Glière: | Prelude in C minor, Op. 16, No. 1 Aux Champs, Op. 34, No. 7 Prelude in E flat (from 12 Children's Pieces, Op. 31) | Grieg: | Jeg Elsker Deg, Op. 41 No. 3 | Griffes: | The White Peacock | Ireland: | The Almond Trees | Lecuona: | Suite Andalucía: Córdoba | Liadov: | Berceuse, Op. 24, No. 2 Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 31, No. 2 Prelude in B minor, Op. 11, No. 1 | Rachmaninov: | Elegie, Op. 3 No. 1 | Schubert: | Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 3 in F minor arr. Godowsky | Scriabin: | Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C sharp minor Mazurka in E minor, Op. 3 No. 7 Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 6 Mazurka in E minor, Op. 25 No. 3 Etrangeté, Op. 63 No. 2 Masque, Op. 63, No. 1 | Shostakovich: | Prelude for piano, Op. 34 No. 17 in A flat major | Strauss, R: | Träumerei (No 4 from Stimmungsbilder, Op. 9) | Tchaikovsky: | Waltz in A flat, Op. 40 No. 8 | Vaughan Williams: | The Lake in the Mountains | Villa-Lobos: | O Polichinelo (from Prole do Bebê, book 1) |
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| |  | American Classics - Charles Griffes
“Buffalo has preposterously harsh winters, but it is worth braving blizzards to hear its fine orchestra. Falletta and the Buffalonians pour an ample portion of polished Griffes's score” International Record Review “Griffes represents the high point of American post-Romanticism. From his European training he inherited both the German and French traditions of Strauss and Debussy, fused them into something rich and strange, and in his later years became involved with Scriabin and oriental music. Much of his music has been regularly available on record, but this all-Griffes CD now makes the best showing for his hyper-sensitive responses to both literature and landscape.
Many of the works here are piano pieces fastidiously scored, with significant additions. TheWhite Peacock, just possibly a cousin of Stravinsky's firebird, is the first of the Roman Sketches for piano, all prefaced with stanzas by Fiona McLeod (a nom-de-plume for William Sharp): the impressionistic Clouds is the last of these.
The orchestral opulence of the Three Poems ofFiona McLeod, steeped in baleful Celtic twilights, makes the piano version seem anaemic; they're compellingly sung here by Barbara Quintiliani.
In the Three Tone-Pictures every picturesque detail of harmonically qualified melody is subtly imagined. The same applies to the Poem for flute and orchestra, where the continuity has the instinctive flow of Delius, beautifully realised by Carol Wincenc. The Pleasure-Dome of KublaKhan, the most extended work in this anthology, is an ecstatic response to Coleridge's opium- saturated masterpiece.
Conductor JoAnn Faletta is completely sympathetic throughout, and there are neatly delivered solos from many of the Buffalo players. This is a revelatory Griffes release, decently recorded with a wide dynamic range: strongly recommended.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Collected Works for Piano
“Charles Tomlinson Griffes [1884-1920] wrote some of the most beautiful music ever created by an American.” -Winthrop Sargeant Among the small but precious body of work that constitutes his legacy, Griffes’s piano music occupies a substantial and significant place. An extremely accomplished pianist himself, Griffes composed music for the piano throughout his brief life. This comprehensive overview, chronologically sequenced, enables the listener to trace Griffes’s compositional development over the arc of his career. The peaks of his achievement in the genre are all here: his best-known piano work, The White Peacock; his “tribute to Wagner,” the brooding De Profundis; Clouds, which can stand comparison with Debussy's composition of the same name; The Fountain of the Acqua Paola, a stunning piece of “water music” in the tradition of Liszt and Ravel; the cryptic and enigmatic Three Preludes of 1919; and the Sonata for Piano, his masterpiece and one of the classics of American music. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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