Alexandre Tharaud - Contemporary Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Joseph Lamb (1887-1960) is considered one of the three great composers of ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and James Scott. Between 1908 and 1919, while living in Montclair, New Jersey, and working in a New York City fabric house, Joe Lamb composed some of the most brilliant ragtime tunes published in America. However, he never released a recording until this one, made in his Brooklyn living room on an upright Knabe piano only a year prior to his death. Lamb, like the other great ragtime composers, considered improvisation to be a trick of Inchlow-classInch players. He played the rags on this recording not from memory, but from the written music he had composed years earlier, to be sure of playing every note he had written. The liner notes describe Lamb's development as a ragtime composer, as well as a brief biography. Album Tracks 1. Cottontail Rag 2. Excelsior Rag 3. Cleopatra Rag 4. The Meeting with Scott Joplin 5. Sensation - a Rag 6. Arthur Marshall, Artie Mathews, James Scott 7. Topliner Rag 8. The Alaskan Rag 9. The Composition of InchNightingaleInch 10. The Ragtime Nightingale 11. American Beauty Rag 12. The Naming of Contentment 13. Contentment Rag 14. Patricia Rag

Alexandre Tharaud's new album features three world premieres on record - three piano concertos written for & dedicated to him by three of the most exciting contemporary composers active today. A deeply engaging, virtuosic tour-de-force of an album. Album Tracks 1. Cara Bali Concerto I. Vivace 2. Cara Bali Concerto II. Vivace 3. Mare Marginis 4. Luz de Lejos I. Preludio 5. Luz de Lejos II. Toccata I 6. Luz de Lejos III. Anunciación - Juego 7. Luz de Lejos IV. Canción de Amor 8. Luz de Lejos V. Toccata II 9. Luz de Lejos VI. Luz de Lejos

Album Tracks 1. Reflections 2. I Remember You 3. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 4. All of You 5. Solar 6. I Want to Talk About You 7. Everytime We Say Goodbye 8. Upper Manhattan Medical Group 9. Nutty