Since you are interested in Piano Music, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
SCOTT JOPLIN
Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 2 Benjamin Loeb (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] "All in all a winning compilation, sympathetically played by Benjamin Loeb. The Naxos engineers have done a pretty good job too, and the booklet notes are both informative and interesting. Compared with the Rifkin disc, which contains many of the... |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Piano Sonata / Piano Fantasy / Piano Variations Benjamin Pasternack (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Dec/2005 ] "The exemplary recorded sound has a very wide dynamic range. This is yet another highly recommendable disc in Naxos's American Classics series." (MusicWeb International, June 2005) |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
Gottschalk: Piano Music (Includes The Union, Tournament Galop & The Dying Poet) Cecile Licad, piano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 21/May/2003 ] "I heartily recommend Cecile Licad's Gottschalk recording. From a purely musical perspective, none of his works are essential listening, but anyone wanting to gain insight into the national psychology of the United States in its first hundred years... |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26 and other solo piano music Daniel Pollack (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] Though one of the most highly regarded American composers of this century, a number of works still await publication, including nine for piano. The present disc contains all of the published works, and amount to just seven scores. The earliest are... |
DAVE BRUBECK
Nocturnes John Salmon (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] "The music may not be of the barnstorming kind but the whole disc is a valuable document of one of the most versatile of American composers" (MusicWeb Oct 2006) |
SCOTT JOPLIN
Piano Rags (Incls 'Maple Leaf Rag') Alexander Peskanov (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "In this warmly recorded selection, Peskanov approaches Joplin with the sophisticated mien of the classically trained." (Gramophone) "The music is treated with respect and admiration, not simply tossed off like so many notes. … If one has any... |
Kenneth Boulton, piano
Siegmeister, Elie-Piano Music Vol 2 (Incls Piano Sonata No 2) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Another new entry in the Naxos American composer series |