PIANO MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS / Szidon

PIANO MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS

GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F major
MACDOWELL: Piano Concerto No. 2
VILLA-LOBOS: A Fiandeira
Rudepoêma · Saudades das Selvas
Brasileiras · New York Skyline · Carnaval
das Crianças · A Lenda do Caboclo
IVES: »Concord« Sonata
Three-Page Sonata
Roberto Szidon
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Downes
Int. Release 10 Mar. 2005
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Track List

CD 1: Piano Music of the Americas

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Concerto in F

1.
1. Allegro
0:00
13:40

2.
2. Adagio
0:00
11:59

3.
3. Allegro agitato
0:00
6:34

Roberto Szidon, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Downes

Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908)
Concerto Nr. 2 in D minor op.23 for piano and orchestra

4.
1. Larghetto calmato - Poco più mosso, e con passione
0:00
13:29

5.
2. Presto giocoso
0:00
4:43

6.
3. Largo - Molto allegro - Presto
0:00
8:51

Roberto Szidon, Edward Downes, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
7.
A Fiandeira
0:00
2:27

8.
Rudepoema
0:00
19:15

Roberto Szidon

Total Playing Time 1:20:58

CD 2: Piano Music of the Americas

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Saudades das Selvas Brasileiras

1.
1. Animado
0:00
1:54

2.
2. Un poco anima
0:00
3:19

3.
New York Skyline
0:00
2:57

Carnaval das Criancas

4.
1. O Ginete do Pierrozinho
0:00
1:03

5.
2. O Chicote do Diabinho
0:00
1:37

6.
3. A Manha da Pierrette
0:00
1:44

7.
4. Os Guizos do Dominozinho
0:00
1:09

8.
5. As Peripécias do Trapeirozinho
0:00
1:12

9.
6. As Traquinices do Mascarado "Mignon"
0:00
1:23

10.
7. A Gaita de um Precoce Fantasiado
0:00
2:20

Roberto Szidon

11.
8. A Folia de um Bloco Infantil
0:00
3:09

Roberto Szidon, Richard Metzler

12.
A Lenda do Caboclo
0:00
3:53

Roberto Szidon

Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954)
Piano Sonata No.2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860"

13.
1. "Emerson". Slowly - Slowly and quietly
0:00
14:18

Roberto Szidon, Walter Stangl

14.
2. "Hawthorne". Very fast
0:00
12:55

15.
3. "The Alcotts"
0:00
5:25

Roberto Szidon

16.
4. "Thoreau". Starting slowly and quietly
0:00
11:25

Roberto Szidon, Dieter Sonntag

17.
Three-page Sonata (1905)
0:00
6:14

Roberto Szidon

Total Playing Time 1:15:57

Szidon's outstanding 1970 coupling of the Gershwin and MacDowell concertos on CD at last. Add one of the finest Villa-Lobos recitals ever recorded and a devastating account of Ives's wrist-crippling "Concord" Sonata, and you're in piano heaven.
Record Review / Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01. August 2005
. . . this is an enticing entry into his extensive piano output . . . his command of transcendental pianism as required in Rudepoêma is never in doubt . . . Szidon's ability to make this sprawling work cohere is still impressive -- as is his uninhibited verve in the Three-Page Sonata.
Record Review / Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone (London) / 01. December 2005
. . . foot-tapping vrtuosity . . .
Record Review / Classic FM (London) / 01. July 2007