Complete Solo Piano Music [8 CD set]

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GOTTSCHALK
Complete Solo Piano Music [8 CD set]
Philip Martin (piano)

[ Hyperion / 8 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Monday 10 October 2011

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'Gottschalk is never abstruse or merely technical, but it is obvious from the elegance of his writing that he was a wonderful pianist. The piano sound is simply wonderful - Hyperion manages to convey an individual instrument's personality in piano recordings' (Fanfare, USA)

'even the most devoted of Gottschalk's admirers will make some arresting discoveries among the less familiar works here'
- International Record Review

'Gottschalk is never abstruse or merely technical, but it is obvious from the elegance of his writing that he was a wonderful pianist. He is still underestimated, I think - as a composer, too. I can listen to his music for hours, and I don't feel that way about much piano music. The piano sound is simply wonderful - Hyperion manages to convey an individual instrument's personality in piano recordings' (Fanfare, USA)

With this strapline Hyperion issued what was expected to be a one-off disc of Gottschalk. Over the course of the succeeding decade popular success has developed the project into the first complete recording of the composer's output for solo piano - now well on its way to completion with the release of this seventh volume.

Ever the opportunist, Gottschalk wrote several of the more 'crowd-pleasing' miniatures on this disc under the pseudonym of 'Seven Octaves', even dedicating one of them to 'To my dear friend L.M.Gottschalk'! But the works professional pride may have persuaded him to disown at the time have inevitably become favourites with posterity. The closing piece of this recital, God save the Queen, further betrays the hand of the master-entertainer: a tune popular across America (to a variety of texts including 'God save America', 'God save George Washington' and, latterly, 'My country, 'tis of thee') and the national anthem of at least eight European states at the time, Gottschalk found in his idiosyncratic arrangement the most appealing of travelling companions.

Tracks:

Includes:
Le Banjo Grotesque fantasie (RO22) c18554/5 [4'06]
Le Mancenillier Serenade, op 11 (RO142) 1848/9 [5'26]
Minuit a Seville Caprice, op 30 (RO170) 1852/6 [4'59]
Romanze 1859/61 [2'57]
Chanson de Gitano (RO35) 1852 [4'24]
Mazurka [4'11]
Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des Gibaros op 31 (RO250) 1857 [6'44]
Souvenir de la Havane Grand caprice de concert, op 39 (RO246) 1859 [6'25]
Danza op 33 (RO66) 1857/9 [5'45]
Sixieme Ballade op 83 (RO14) c1869 [6'17]
Columbia Caprice Americain, op 34 (RO61) 1859 [5'49]
Les yeux creoles Danse Cubaine, op 37 (RO185) 1859 [2'17]
Le Bananier Chanson negre, op 5 (RO21) 1845/6 [2'44]
Union Paraphrase de concert, op 48 (RO269) 1862 [7'39]Suis moi! - Caprice, RO253 (Op 45) c1861 [3'29]
Berceuse, RO27 (Op 47) 1860 [4'42]
La Jota Aragonesa - Caprice espagnol, RO130 (Op 14) 1852 [2'53]
Manchega - Etude de Concert, RO143 (Op 38) 1853-6 [4'16]
Marche de Nuit, RO151 (Op 17) 1855 [4'59]
La Savane - Ballade Creole, RO232 (Op 3) c1845/6 [6'49]
Miserere du Trovatore - Paraphrase de Concert, RO171 (Op 52) 1856 [8'56]
Souvenir d'Andalousie - Caprice de Concert, RO242 (Op 22) 1851 [4'15]
Polka in A flat, RO275 1859 [3'01]
Ballade, RO271 1853 [4'46]
Polka in B flat, RO273 date unknown [2'01]
Ynes, RO277 1860 [2'10]
Caprice-Polka, RO44 (edited Espadero as Op 79) 1856 [4'26]
Scherzo Romantique, RO233 (edited Espadero as Op 73) 1851 [3'49]
Souvenir de Lima - Mazurka, RO247 (Op 74 )1865 [4'27]
Grand Scherzo, RO114 (Op 57) 1869 [5'00]
Pasquinade - Caprice, RO189 (Op 59) [3'45]Le Banjo Grotesque fantasie (RO22) c18554/5 [4'06]
Le Mancenillier Serenade, op 11 (RO142) 1848/9 [5'26]
Minuit a Seville Caprice, op 30 (RO170) 1852/6 [4'59]
Romanze 1859/61 [2'57]
Chanson de Gitano (RO35) 1852 [4'24]
Mazurka [4'11]
Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des Gibaros op 31 (RO250) 1857 [6'44]
Souvenir de la Havane Grand caprice de concert, op 39 (RO246) 1859 [6'25]
Danza op 33 (RO66) 1857/9 [5'45]
Sixieme Ballade op 83 (RO14) c1869 [6'17]
Columbia Caprice Americain, op 34 (RO61) 1859 [5'49]
Les yeux creoles Danse Cubaine, op 37 (RO185) 1859 [2'17]
Le Bananier Chanson negre, op 5 (RO21) 1845/6 [2'44]
Union Paraphrase de concert, op 48 (RO269) 1862 [7'39]The Water Sprite polka de salon RO296 (Op 27) [4'29]
Forget me not mazurka caprice RO99 [4'35]
Deuxième Banjo RO24 (Op 30) [5'18]
Ardennes Mazurka RO243 [4'24]
Le cri de délivrance caprice héroïque RO62 (Op 55) [6'33]
Fairy Land schottische de concert RO91 [3'58]
Hurrah Galop pas redoublé de concert RO118 [2'33]
Le chant du soldat grand caprice de concert RO51 (Op 23) [10'17]
Amour chevaleresque caprice élégant en forme de schottish RO135 [4'35]
La brise valse de concert RO30 [3'29]
Madeleine étude RO140 [4'34]
7ème Ballade RO15 (Op 87) [5'40]
La Gallina danse cubaine RO100 (Op 53) [2'46]
The Dying Swan romance poétique RO76 (Op 100) [4'51]
God save the Queen morceau de concert RO106 (Op 41) [4'37]

and many others