American Romantics II, by Reuben Blundell & Gowanus Arts Ensemble

American Romantics II

by Reuben Blundell & Gowanus Arts Ensemble

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1.	Stephen Foster, arr. Carl Busch: Old Folks at Home 05:29	buy track
2.	Félix Borowski: Suite Rococo: Caprice Pompadour 02:49	buy track
3.	Félix Borowski: Suite Rococo: Air à Danser 03:02	buy track
4.	Félix Borowski: Suite Rococo: Passepied 03:14	buy track
5.	Félix Borowski: Two Pieces: Crépuscule (Sunset) 04:20	buy track
6.	Félix Borowski: Two Pieces: Sérénade 03:06	buy track
7.	George Whitefield Chadwick: Intermezzo 04:58	buy track
8.	Arthur Foote: Theme & Variations 10:54	buy track
9.	Paul Theodore Miersch: Wiegenlied (Cradle Song) 03:01	buy track
10.	Ethelbert Nevin, arr. Paul Theodore Miersch: La Guitare (Pierrot et Pierrete) 02:20	buy track
11.	Edgar Stillman Kelly: Confluentia 04:52	buy track
12.	Martinus van Gelder: The lingac Boatsong 02:09	buy track
13.	Bernardus Boekelman: In der Einsamkeit (In Solitude) 05:20	buy track
14.	Louis Lombard: Élégie 05:21	buy track
15.	Arthur Bird: Valse Menuett 03:02	buy track
16.	Arthur Bird: Gavotte 02:33	buy track
17.	Charles Wakefield Cadman: To a Vanishing Race 02:30	buy track
18.	Stephen Foster, arr. Carl Busch: My Old Kentucky Home 05:12	buy track
19.	Arthur Claassen: Sanssouci, Menuet 06:16	buy track
20.	Paul Theodore Miersch: Elegy 05:05	buy track

about

These world-premiere recordings are the second in conductor Reuben Blundell’s series promoting music by American composers, from the rich but underrepresented (at least in performance) music of the late 19th and 20th century. Some of these composers were born in America. Others, from Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, joined and influenced the musical life of their adopted country. Beyond these string orchestra works lie tantalizing, and mostly obscured, catalogs of compositions including operas, tone poems, symphonies, chamber music and songs.

Blundell unearthed these pieces from the rich troves of the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Fleisher Collection is the world’s largest lending library of orchestral performance material, lending to performing organizations worldwide. Alongside virtually the entire standard repertoire, it houses many rare and out-of-print works, with a current collection of over 22,000 titles and growing. Among them are two warm arrangements of iconic Stephen Foster songs by Kansas City based, Czech born Carl Busch and an extended Theme and Variations by Arthur Foote, who, among other distinctions, holds the honor of being the first recipient of a graduate degree in composition in the United States. The album’s program is balanced between natives of the United States (Foote, George Whitfield Chadwick, Ethelbert Nevin, Edgar Stillman Kelley, Arthur Bird, Charles Wakefield Cadman) and Europeans who became U.S. immigrants (Busch, Félix Borowski, Paul Miersch, Martinus van Gelder, Bernardus Boekelman, and Louis Lombard). In this way, these works are an ideal snapshot of the nascent musical community in the United States at the turn of the century — a moment in time that witnessed the gradual emergence of what flowered later into a rich American compositional tradition, through the different strains of Horatio Parker, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and eventually John Cage, Morton Feldman, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston, and countless others.

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released December 1, 2017

Recorded at Peter Karl Studios in the Gowanus Arts Building, June 6 & 7, 2014.
Producer/editor: Dag Gabrielsen
Engineer: Peter Karl
Post-production advisor: Dan Lippel
Mastering: Zach Herchen
Editor: Dag Gabrielsen, Zach Herchen
Orchestra Manager: Matthew Beaumont
Program Notes: Reuben Blundell
Graphic Design: Bloomsday Design
Artwork: Jasper Francis Cropsey “Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania”

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New Focus Recordings is an artist led collective label featuring releases in contemporary music of many stripes, as well as new approaches to older repertoire. The label was founded by guitarist Daniel Lippel (who is the current director), composer engineer Ryan Streber, and composer Peter Gilbert in 2003-4, and features releases from many of new music's most active performers and composers. ... more

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