Panorama of American Piano Music: From Antheil to Zappa

Yvar Mikhashoff

Mode Records

This 4 CD collection of piano music includes a version of the Tom Constanten composition Dejavalse.

Tracks

CD 1:

• Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-60: 3. The Alcotts (Charles Ives)
• Suicide in an Airplane (Leo Ornstein)
• Three Preludes (Charles Tomlinson Griffes)
• In A Nutshell: 3 Pastorale (Percy Grainger)
• Three Sonnets (Aaron Copland)
• Amiable Conversation (Henry Cowell)
• Valse Pour Les Petits Lecteurs Du Figaro (Igor Stravinsky)
• Sonata: Death of Machines (George Antheil)
• Poems of the Sea: 2. Chanty (Ernest Bloch)
• Impromptu in Two Keys (George Gershwin)
• Nickel in the Slot (Zez Confrey)
• Pentagram No. 3 ("Release"): 4. Stars (Dane Rudhyar)
• Blue Voyage (Wallingford Riegger)
• Music for a Five and Dime Store, (Henry Brant)
• Nine Preludes: No. 6 (Ruth Crawford Seeger)
• Sonatina Fragmentaria (Paul Bowles)
• Prelude & Blues (Conlon Nancarrow)
• Quest (John Cage)

• Twelve Short Piano Pieces: 6. A Boat Slowly Sailing (Ernst Krenek)
• Six Preludes: Prelude No. 4 (Otto Luening)
• From My Diary: No. 3 (Roger Sessions)
• Souvenir: Paul Bowles, (Virgil Thomson)
• The Resting Place on the Hill, from Our Town (Aaron Copland)
• Seven Anniversaries: 1. For Aaron Copland (Leonard Bernstein)
• Seven Anniversaries: 7. For William Schuman (Leonard Bernstein)
• Evocations: 1, 2 and 4 (Carl Ruggles)
• American Ballads: No. 1, Streets of Laredo (Roy Harris)
• Prelude (Morton Gould)
• In a Landscape (John Cage)
• Valentine Waltzes (George Antheil)
• For a Happy Occasion (Virgil Thomson)
• Three Pieces: No. 2 (Earle Brown)
• Etude (Mel Powell)
• Study No. 2 (LaMonte Young)
• Sarabande (LaMonte Young)
• Prelude for a Pensive Pupil (Peggy Glanville-Hicks)

• Vertical Thoughts 4 (Morton Feldman)
• Five Visionary Landscapes: 1, 2 and 3. (Alan Hovhaness)
• Little House I Used to Live in (Frank Zappa)
• Synchronisms No. 6 (Mario Davidovsky)
• Makrokosmos II,: 7. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) (George Crumb)
• Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen (Lou Harrison)
• Red Garnet Waltz (Joan Tower)
• Forty-Nine Waltzes for the Five Boroughs: 1st Realization and 2nd Realization (John Cage)
• Dejavalse (Tom Constanten)
• Waltz "In Memoriam Maurice Ravel" (Robert Moran)
• Modern Love Waltz (Philip Glass)
• Four Piano Pieces: No 4 (Frederic Rzewski)
• Preludes No 5 (Christian Wolff)
• Nocturnes: I. Spanish Dreams/II. French Dreams/III. American Dreams (James Sellars)
• Youth's Companion: V. Riddle Song (Ross Lee Finney)

• Opening (Philip Glass)
• Solo (Lukas Foss)
• For Cornelius (Alvin Curran)
• Souvenir (John Cage)
• Nocturne: The Sensualist, Dying, Recalls His Protestant Youth (Nils Vigeland)
• The Dance (Stephen Paulus)
• My Friend Mozart (Kamran Ince)
• Veiled Autumn: Kindertodeslied (Joseph Schwantner)
• Song Without Words (Otto Luening)
• Changing Faces (Alvin Singleton)
• A Summerfield Set: 1. Sonata (Lou Harrison)
• Three 2-Part Studies (Conlon Nancarrow)

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