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A Crazy Quilt Of American Piano Music

Leo Smit, piano

This record is one of tomorrow's collector's classics. Be smart and buy it today. --Richard Taruskin, Opus

A Crazy Quilt Of American Piano Music

Leo Smit, piano
track listings and liner notes

1 CHARLES IVES: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord": III. The Alcotts 06:01


2 IRVING FINE: Hommage À Mozart 02:03


3 AARON COPLAND: Three Moods: Embittered - Wistful - Jazzy 04:34


4 JOHN CAGE: Dream for Piano (1948) 03:41


5 VIRGIL THOMSON: 13 Portraits For Piano: Persistently Pastorale - Aaron Copland 03:29


6 LEO SMIT: 7 Characteristic Pieces: Ostinato 01:43


7 LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK: Ossian, Op. 4: Ballade No. 1 in F-Sharp Major 03:02


8 PETE JOHNSON: Zero Hour 03:03


9 EDWARD MACDOWELL: New England Idylls, Op. 62: 5. In Deep Woods 03:20


10 LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Five Anniversaries (1954): For Lukas Foss 01:41


11 HOWARD SHAPERO: Sonata No. 2 (1944): 2. Adagio 03:57


12 GEORGE GERSHWIN: A Foggy Day 03:09


13 LOUISE TALMA: Pastoral Prelude (1949) 04:12


14 GAIL KUBIK: Whistling Tune 01:15


15 SAMUEL BARBER: Excursions, Op 20: Movement II - In slow blues tempo 03:31


16 ARTHUR FALWELL: Three Indian Songs, Op. 32: Song of the Deathless Voice 02:07


17 WILLIAM SCHUMAN: Three Piano Moods: "III Dynamic" 01:25

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