Marches, Waltzes & Rags of Scott Joplin

William Albright (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Music Masters Jazz
• ASIN: B000000FRE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,552 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Distinguished renditions, on the finest piano, October 25, 2004

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David B "Piano David" (GOUROCK, Renfrewshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marches, Waltzes & Rags of Scott Joplin (Audio CD)

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.