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William Albright
Marches, Waltzes & Rags of Scott Joplin
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Great Crush Collision March, for piano
2. Harmony Club Waltz, for piano
3. Combination March, for piano
4. Swipesy, cake walk for piano (collaboration with Arthur Marshall)
5. The Augustan Club Waltzes, for piano
6. Sunflower Slow Drag, ragtime two-step for piano (collaboration with Sco
7. Cleopha, march & two-step for piano
8. March Majestic, for piano
9. Something Doing Cake Walk March, ragtime two-step for piano (collaborat - William Albright, Hayden, Scott [1]
10. Bethena, waltz for piano
11. The Rose-bud March, for piano
12. Binks' Waltz, for piano
13. Antoinette, march & two-step for piano
14. Heliotrope Bouquet, rag for piano (collaboration with Louis Chauvin) - William Albright, Chauvin, Louis
15. Lily Queen, rag for piano (collaboration with Arthur Marshall)
16. Pleasant Moments Ragtime Waltz, for piano
17. Felicity Rag, ragtime two-step for piano (collaboration with Scott Hayd
18. Kismet Rag, for piano (collaboration with Scott Hayden)

CD Details

All Artists: William Albright
Title: Marches, Waltzes & Rags of Scott Joplin
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Music Masters Jazz
Release Date: 2/9/1993
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Swing Jazz, Marches, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 016126710228

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This second volume of William Albright's Joplin recordings includes some rags and some other forms, such as marches and waltzes. Joplin wrote well in these forms too, though his early Crush Collision March (depicting a train wreck) is amusingly naïve. While these pieces aren't the best-known Joplin, some of them such as the gorgeous waltz Bethena and the Sunflower Slow Drag deserve to be in the Joplin pantheon. As on Volume 1, Joplin: Rags, Albright plays this music with charm, humor, and insight; he knows where the music comes from and he doesn't try to inflate it or vulgarize it. --Leslie Gerber

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CD Reviews

Distinguished renditions, on the finest piano

David B | GOUROCK, Renfrewshire United Kingdom | 10/25/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The piano used for this CD is a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand, and it's pleasing to think of Joplin's music being performed by a Professor of Music on this Austrian Emperor of pianos!

Listen to the low note at the end of Augustan Club Waltz to hear a meaty sound that no other piano can produce.

These are solid, musical, very listenable performances, faithful to the music "as wrote", and really this CD belongs in the collection of anyone interested in Joplin's music.

Sometimes I feel that the left hand is perhaps a little 'light', but perhaps that's just a quibble.

The recording of the Bosendorfer here has a warm, slightly 'forward' sound that is very different from the slightly detached or recessed sound of the (still excellent) 1970s Rifkin recordings on Nonesuch."