Performer: Lara Downes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Release: 2016
Size: 1.79 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Gould, M: American Caprice
Harrison, L: New York Waltzes
02. I. Waltz in C
03. II. Hesitation Waltz
04. III. Waltz in A
05. trad.: Shenandoah
06. Beach, A: From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83
07. Coleridge-Taylor: 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59: No. 10. Deep River
08. Visconti, D: 9Lonesome Roads: Nocturne
09. Bloch, Poems of the Sea: III. At Sea: Allegro vivo (version for piano)
10. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act II: I Loves You, Porgy (arr. N. Simone for piano)
11. Negrón: Sueno Recurrente
12. Bernstein: 13 Anniversaries: No. 3. For Stephen Sondheim
13. Sanford: Promise
14. Hanson, H: Slumber Song
15. Joplin: Gladiolus Rag
16. Berlin, I: The Jazz Singer: Blue Skies (arr. A. Tatum for piano)
17. Price, F: Fantasie Negre
18. Copland: Blues No. 1 (Sentimental Melody: Slow Dance)
19. Ellington: Melancholia
20. Harris, Roy: Li’l boy named David
21. Arlen: The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow (arr. for piano)
Recorded: 7-11 March 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States
“This music is a tribute to the generations of Americans who dream the impossible: black and white, men and women, immigrants and pioneers. It tells the story of their journeys, their loves and longings, their hardships and their hopes. American music is made of everything we are, coming from so many different people and places, expressing so many different dreams.
I hope this music carries you wherever you chase your dreams – across the sea, over the river, down lonesome roads, even over the rainbow. You can hear in this very American music, born of very American dreams, a promise: that if we keep dreaming, maybe, someday, even our wildest dream will come true.”