CDA66459 - Disc 1 Track 1 - Le banjo 'Fantaisie grotesque, an American sketch', RO22 Op 15 - Hyperion Records

Le banjo 'Fantaisie grotesque, an American sketch', RO22 Op 15

composer

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)

? 1854/5; published in New York in 1855; alternative title: Le caprice américain; dedicated to Richard Hoffman

Recordings

Gottschalk: Piano Music, Vol. 1

Philip Martin (piano)

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Philip Martin (piano)

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Details

Philip Martin (piano)

Track 1 on CDA66459 [4'06]

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Le banjo 'Fantaisie grotesque, an American sketch', RO22 Op 15

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With its vamp-till-ready passages and jaunty cakewalk strut, The Banjo is Gottschalk’s exuberant portrait of a virtuoso banjo player in a minstrel show. Like many other of his compositions, the pianistic difficulties increase in the final pages, marked prestissimo, with their echoes of Stephen Foster’s De Camptown Races, published just four years earlier. The piece is dedicated to Richard Hoffman.

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Details for CDA66459 track 1

Artists

Philip Martin (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-91-45901

Duration

4'06

Recording date

20 September 1990

Recording venue

St Michael's Church, Highgate, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Martin Compton

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Gottschalk: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (CDA66459)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: June 1991
Gottschalk: The Complete Solo Piano Music (CDS44451/8)
Disc 1 Track 1
Release date: October 2011
8CDs Boxed set (at a special price)