Scott Joplin ~ Greatest Hits

Scott Joplin (Composer), piano Dick Hyman (Performer), piano James Levine (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: piano Dick Hyman, piano James Levine
• Composer: Scott Joplin
• Audio CD (September 6, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003F62
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,616 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #43 in Music > Jazz > Traditional Jazz & Ragtime > Ragtime

Track Listings

1. Maple Leaf Rag, for piano

2. Original Rags for piano

3. Peacherine Rag, for piano

4. The Easy Winners, for piano

5. Sunflower Slow Drag, ragtime two-step for piano (collaboration with Sco

6. The Entertainer, for piano

7. Elite Syncopations, for piano

8. The Strenuous Life, rag for piano

9. A Breeze from Alabama, march & ragtime two-step for piano

10. Palm Leaf, slow drag for piano

11. Something Doing Cake Walk March, ragtime two-step for piano (collaborat

12. Weeping Willow, ragtime two-step for piano

13. The Chrysanthemum, an Afro-American Intermezzo, for piano

14. The Cascades, rag for piano

15. The Sycamore, for piano

16. Paragon Rag, for piano

17. Sugar Cane, ragtime two-step for piano

18. Scott Joplin's New Rag, for piano

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Joplin should not sound like Gershwin!, August 10, 2005

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scott Joplin ~ Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Levine plays the best he can to intend approach the essential spirit of the Rag. But he lacks of that special rapture in the expression and plays extremely over polished without those little imperfections and disaffections involved in the this genre.
The Rag is -in certain harmonies- a sadness that, being incapable to cry, smiles.