Composer: Marc Blitzstein
Performer: Leonard Lehrman, Helene Williams
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0438
Release: 2019
Size: 593 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Waterfall
01. Barcarolle
02. Prelude in C minor
03. Valse (Live)00:36
Children’s Dances
04. No. 1, Pavane
05. No. 2, Round
Svarga Suite
06. No. 4, Belly-ache
Piano Percussion Music
07. I. Toccata
08. II. Air
09. III. Rondino
10. Scherzo “Bourgeois at Play”
Cain
11. No. 1, The Young Son. Abel Offers the Lamb
12. No. 3, Cain and His Wife. Cain’s Offering. The Response
13. No. 10, Dance of Noema
Piano Solo
14. No. 2, Cantabile
Le monde libre
15. March on a French Resistance Tune
Show
16. No. 1, Prelude & Welcome
17. No. 2, Three-Four Dance
18. No. 3, Parade
19. No. 4, Var. 2
20. No. 5, Var. 1
21. No. 6, Hollywood and Vine
22. No. 7, Pas de deux
23. Innocent Psalm (For the Bernstein Baby)
24. Slow March (For Kit’s Wedding)
25. Wedding Piece (For Stephen and Joyce)
26. Lied (For Ben Cooper, and His Women)
27. Piano Sonata
The American composer Marc Blitzstein (1905–64) was best known for his left-leaning stage works; indeed, his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock achieved some notoriety in 1937 when the authorities shut it down. But Blitzstein was also a fine pianist and wrote for the instrument all through his career. This first album ever devoted entirely to his piano output offers a conspectus of 45 years of Blitzstein’s music, from lyrical juvenilia via spiky protest pieces and jazzy dance numbers to intimate ‘family’ pieces for close friends. The pianist is the Blitzstein expert Leonard Lehrman, whom Leonard Bernstein called ‘Blitzstein’s dybbuk’, and who for decades has been one of the leading Blitzstein scholars.