Gottschalk: Piano Music - 3 [Import]

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (Composer), Philip Martin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Philip Martin
• Composer: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• Audio CD (April 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZYR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,475 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. O ma charmante, epargnez-moi!

2. Grande Fantaisie triomphale sur l'hymne national bresilien

3. Gottschalk's Melody

4. Bamboula

5. The Dying Poet

6. Hercule

7. The Last Hope

8. Murmures eoliens

9. Symphony No. 1 'La Nuit des tropiques', first movement: Andante

10. La Chute des Feuilles

11. Tournament Galop

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Gottschalk I've Heard, March 8, 2010

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Stephen Doonan "music, art and linux enthusiast" (Portales, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gottschalk: Piano Music - 3 (Audio CD)

I became fascinated with Louis Moreau Gottschalk and his music when I heard a performance on vinyl record of his Bamboula in the 1960s. In the decades since, Gottschalk's music has slowly been recovered from obscurity, and now there exist quite a few recordings and interpretations of his work. I have Gottschalk performanced by Cecile Licad (I'm not fond of her performances), Amiram Rigai (don't like it much), Michael Lewin (very nice interpretations), Georges Rabol (fine interpretations) and Klaus Kaufmann.

However, this set of 8 disks of music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk by Philip Martin is far and away the best. The recordings and especially Philip Martin's interpretations, pacing, enunciation of the various simultaneous musical elements, his vigor and charm and technical ability, his care with subtlety and nuance and singing slower phrases, are all just great.

I highly recommend this entire set of the piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk by Philip Martin.