Arthur Farwell: Klavierwerke Vol.1 on CD
Klavierwerke Vol.1
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
The Vale of Enitharmon op. 91; Impressions of the Wa-Wan Ceremony of the Omahas op. 21; Polytonal Studies op. 109
- Artists:
- Lisa Chery Thomas, Klavier
- Label:
- Toccata
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2011
- Item number:
- 3196082
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060113441263
- Release date:
- 19.11.2012
In A. Farwells spannender Musik wurden u. a. indianische Volksmelodien verarbeitet
Product Information
The American composer Arthur Farwell (1872–1952) is remembered as the leading member of a group of ‘Indianists’ who used Native American tribal melodies. But Farwell’s stylistic range was much wider than is realised today. This CD, the first of two to be recorded by Lisa Cheryl Thomas, herself of Cherokee, Blackfoot and Sioux ancestry, presents first The Vale of Enitharmon, based on the mythology of William Blake, which mixes Romanticism and Impressionism. Impressions of the Wa-Wan Ceremony of the Omahas represents an American Indian ritual so revered that warring tribes would lay down their arms to let the procession pass. And the experimental Polytonal Studies pit two different keys against each other, exploiting the attraction of opposites to generate unusual harmonies and melodies.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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                    1 The vale of Enitharmon op. 91(1930)
Impressions of the Wa-Wan ceremony of the Omahas op. 21 (1905)
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                    2 Nr. 1 Receiving the messenger: Slowly and quietly
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                    3 Nr. 2 Nearing the village: Moderately
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                    4 Nr. 3 Song of approach: Moderately, with breadth
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                    5 Nr. 4 Laying down the pipes: Very broadly
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                    6 Nr. 5 Raising the pipes: Lightly, with motion
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                    7 Nr. 6 Invocation: With diginity, slowly
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                    8 Nr. 7 Song of peace: Peacefully
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                    9 Nr. 8 Choral: Broadly, with religious feeling
Polytonal Studies op. 109 (1940-52)
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                    10 Nr. 1 C-Dur - G-Dur (1942)
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                    11 Nr. 2 G-Dur - C-Dur (1940)
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                    12 Nr. 3 C-Dur - A-Dur (1945)
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                    13 Nr. 4 As-Dur - C-Dur (1940)
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                    14 Nr. 5 Ges-Dur - As-Dur (1940)
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                    15 Nr. 6 Sea picture: C-Dur - H-Dur
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                    16 Nr. 7 C-Dur - Des-Dur
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                    17 Nr. 8 C-Dur - Es-Dur (1940)
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                    18 Nr. 9 G-Dur - Des-Dur
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                    19 Nr. 10 D-Dur - B-Dur
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                    20 Nr. 11 F-Dur - Es-Dur (1942)
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                    21 Nr. 12 Es-Dur - es-moll (1940)
 
                             
                                                 
             
                     
                     
                    