GOTTSCHALK: A Night in the Tropics

Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra;
Ohashi, Sakiko;
Richards, Barbara;
Rosenberg, Richard;
Rowe, Paul

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Here is the first recording of Gottschalk's Symphonie romantique, subtitled A Night in the Tropics, based on the composer's own orchestral score, now preserved at the New York Public Library. Here, too, are adaptatious of Gottschalk pieces by his friends and self-proclaimed disciples Sidney Lambert (1838-1909), Lucien Lambert fils (1858-1945) and Nicolas Ruiz Espadero (1832-1890). The last, a formidably proficient Cuban friend of Gottscha1k's, transcribed the Louisianian's Tarantelle, Op. 67. No. 5 for winds, strings and piano. Hearing this work, offered here for the first time ever on CD, one must wonder whether Gottschalk did not himself participate in the project during the months before his final departure from Havana in 1862. • And here, finally, are several of Gottschalk's virtuoso compositions for piano, sympathetically transcribed for orchestra by the gifted Jack Elliott, who was commissioned by the American Ballet Theater to adapt a group of Gottschalk's eminently danceable pieces for use on the ballet stage. What a pity Lynn Taylor-Corbett's choreography is not also included!

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

03-01-2000

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