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Rarities of Piano Music 1996: Live Recordings from the Husum Festival

4/18/2007, 37 Tracks, 1:55:05

Featuring

  • Kathryn Stott
  • Piers Lane
  • Marc-André Hamelin
  • Hamish Milne
  • Igor Zhukov
  • Peter Froundjian
  • Raimund Tabor
  • Francis Poulenc
  • Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  • Frank Bridge
  • Percy Grainger
  • Radamés Gnattali
  • Alexander Goedicke
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Arthur Honegger
  • Vincent d'Indy
  • Alexander Moszkowski

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Composer Biography

Percy Grainger, an Australian-born composer, was described by Harold Schonberg in "The Great Pianists" as "a whale of a pianist."

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Percy Grainger's ragtime piece "In Dahomey" was inspired by a comedy of the same name and a cakewalk by Arthur Pryor, a trombone soloist with Sousa's band.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Kathryn Stott, a British pianist, organized a successful music festival in Manchester for Gabriel Fauré's 150th anniversary in 1995, when it seemed to have been forgotten in Britain.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Radamés Gnattali, a Brazilian composer, promoted a national style of music, incorporating elements of jazz and light music into his neo-Romantic or neo-Classical style.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Frank Bridge, a composer featured on this album, is best known today as the teacher of Benjamin Britten, whose early work "Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge" is for string orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album, "Pastiche and Parody," was recorded live at the 10th anniversary of the "Rarities of Piano Music Festival" in Husum, Germany, on August 16, 1996.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The festival's artistic director, Peter Froundjian, not only performed as a pianist but also acted in the "Pastiche and Parody" segment.

Source: Booklet

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