Album title:American Piano
- Piano Works by Gottschalk, Joplin & Gershwin
This CD will be released on November 15, 2011;
- performed by Leonard Pennario, pianist, and by Joshua Rifkin
Tracks on this CD are as follows:
Gershwin:
Promenade (Walking the Dog)
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Two Waltzes in C
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Merry Andrew
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Ballet from ‘Primrose’
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Three-Quarter Blues
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Rialto Ripples (Rag)
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Preludes Nos. 1-3
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Gottschalk, L:
Columbia Caprice Americain, Op. 34
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Marguerite Grande valse brillante RO158 (Op 76)
Leonard Pennario (piano)
La Gallina, Op. 53
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Ballade, RO271 1853
Leonard Pennario (piano)
O ma charmante, épargnez-moi! Caprice RO182 (Op 44) 1861
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Suis-moi! – caprice Op. 45 (RO253)
Leonard Pennario (piano)
Joplin:
Paragon Rag
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
Magnetic Rag
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
Maple Leaf Rag
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
The Entertainer
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
The Easy Winners
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
Pineapple Rag
Joshua Rifkin (piano)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (born in 1829) was a composer-pianist best known as a virtuoso performer of his own works. He spent most of his working career outside of the United States. Although he became quite famous in Europe and America, when he died his reputation did not survive for very long afterwards.
The second disc in this set contains more of Pennario’s recordings of music by Gottschalk and continues with a selection of popular pieces by Scott Joplin (1867-1917), an African-American pianist-composer who became known as the “the king of rag”. This second CD ends with some of George Gershwin’s piano music played by Leonard Pennario.
Leonard Pennario (1924-2008) was an American virtuoso pianist who recorded over 60 LPs, most of them of composers dating from Chopin and later. He is perhaps best known for championing certain composers such as George Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Miklós Rózsa, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Sergei Prokofiev.
Here is Leonard Pennario in the “Spellbound” Concerto by Miklos Rozsa (1907 – 1995)
And finally, here’s Leonard Pennario in FREDERIC CHOPIN’s Waltz No.12 in F minor
Tags: Leonard Pennario, Gottschalk, Joplin, Gershwin