Rayons d'azur 'Polka de salon', RO220 Op 77 (Gottschalk) - from CDA67248 - Hyperion Records

The Monkeys by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA / Bridgeman Art Library, London

Track(s) taken from CDA67248

Another Gottschalk polka—but with a difference. This one is in six sharps (its central section has five) and needs a bravura technique to bring off, peppered with leggiero repeated notes and requests for a brillante and scintillante touch, hardly reflective of its sub-title ‘Shades of evening’. Unmistakably by Gottschalk, it was first heard at the fifth of the composer’s Dodsworth’s Hall, New York recitals in February 1854 and published posthumously.

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Recording details: January 2001
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Ken Blair
Release date: September 2001
Total duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

Rayons d'azur 'Polka de salon', RO220 Op 77

composer

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

1855; published in Boston in 1873; alternative title: Shade of evening

Philip Martin (piano)

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