Composer: Arthur Farwell
Performer: Lisa Cheryl Thomas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0380
Release: 2018
Size: 495 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Piano Sonata, Op. 113
02. For Cynthia
03. Laughing Piece
2 Little Poems, Op. 106
04. No. 2, Strange Dream
In the Tetons, Op. 86
05. I. Granite and Ice
06. II. Lonely Campfire
07. III. Humoresque. Arduous Trail
08. IV. Wild Flower
09. V. Wind Play
10. VI. The Peaks at Night
11. What’s in an octave?, Op. 84
From Mesa and Plain
12. No. 1, Navajo War Dance
13. Navajo War Dance No. 2, Op. 29
The American composer Arthur Farwell (1872–1952) is best remembered as the leading member of a group of ‘Indianists’ who used Native American tribal melodies in their own compositions. In fact, Farwell’s stylistic range was much wider than is realised today, as this third album in Lisa Thomas’ pioneering survey of his piano music demonstrates. It reveals the influence of both Debussy and Skryabin, perhaps even Busoni and, in the two ‘Navajo War Dances’ here, intriguing parallels with Bartók.