Copland before the LP (1928-49)
Aaron Copland (piano), Ivor Karman (violin), David Freed (cello), Jacques Gordon (violin), Ethel Luening (soprano), Leo Smit (piano), Louis Kaufman (violin)
Aaron Copland was active as a pianist throughout most of his musical career, giving up piano performance only after 1970, when he concentrated on conducting. He continued to record performances of his own music through much of the LP era, although only as a collaborator in chamber works and his Piano Concerto.
The present CD collects for the first time all of Copland’s pre-LP recordings. While most of them have been issued on LP or CD before, they have never all been available in one place. Further, they are now presented in splendid new transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn, who was able to locate copies of all of the originals including the ultra-scarce New Music Quarterly side. The piano roll of “The Cat and the Mouse” is published in any audio recording for the first time.
Copland said he had never performed any other composer’s piano music in public. But his technique was strong enough to support the powerful performance of his Piano Variations and, later, of his Piano Concerto. This restoration of his earlier piano recordings is a valuable document of a major composer showing how his own music should go. His collaborators in these recordings include two major violinists, Jacques Gordon and Louis Kaufman, and Copland’s long-time friend and collaborator, the composer and pianist Leo Smit.
Royalties on this CD are being paid to Copland House, an award-winning creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark house near New York City (/s/files/1/0067/4660/3571/files/sound_sample_2_large.png?v=1550238641″ alt=””>
Copland: Danzon Cubano
Copland: Four Piano Blues
Copland: Piano Variations
Copland: Scherzo humoristique: Le chat et la souris (The Cat and the Mouse)
Copland: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano
Copland: Violin Sonata
Copland: Vitebsk – study on a Jewish theme for violin, cello & piano
Copland: Vocalise
Copland remained breezily self-effacing about his skills at the keyboard, but this precious collection of re-mastered 78 recordings, all featuring Copland at the piano, stand as a wonderful testament… — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018
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