Composer: George Antheil
Performer: Judy Pang
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0447
Release: 2018
Size: 543 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Mother’s Day Piece
02. The Ben Hecht Valses
03. Musical Picture of a Friend
Carnival of the Beautiful Dresses
04. I. Opening Choral
05. II. A la valse
06. III. Mexicali
07. IV. Valse Passion
08. V. Habañera – Rhumba
09. VI. Love Affair Valse
10. VII. Autumn Fancy
11. VIII. Gamin Valse
12. IX. Martinique
13. X. Grand Climax
14. XI. Valse of the Female Gamin Who Fell in Love Hopelessly for a Time
15. XII. Gay American Valse
16. XIII. Finale Rhumbetta
2 Toccatas
17. Toccata No. 1
18. Toccata No. 2
Valentine Waltzes
19. Waltz No. 1
20. Waltz No. 2
21. Waltz No. 3
22. Waltz No. 4
23. Waltz No. 5
24. Waltz No. 6
25. Waltz No. 7
26. Waltz No. 8
27. Waltz No. 9
28. Waltz No. 10
29. Waltz No. 11
Piano Sonata No. 5
30. III. Allegro
31. Waltzes from Volpone
32. Berceuse for Thomas Montgomery Newman
The American composer George Antheil (1900–59) enjoyed the sobriquet ‘Bad Boy of Music’ thanks to the mechanistic scores of his early career. This anthology of piano music from the last twenty years of his life reveals a muse that could also be affectionate, flirtatious and capricious. But the ‘Bad Boy’ occasionally re-emerged, as in the diabolical mischief of the wild, peppery, Prokofievan toccatas also recorded here. This is the first of two albums presenting the less well-known parts of Antheil’s piano output and it contains a number of first recordings. Judy Pang, currently based in New York, has made frequent solo appearances at Steinway Hall, Yamaha Piano Salon, Greenfield Hall and Staller Recital Hall. She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne in 2006, her Master of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music, and, in 2015, her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University.