William Masselos: The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection
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Label: Sony
Cat No: 19439717182
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 7
Release Date: 7th August 2020
Contents
Works
Music for a FarceScene d'Anabase
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Piano Fantasy
Piano Variations (1930)
Piano Sonata no.1
Variations and Capriccio for violin and piano
Chapitres tournes en tous sens
Embryons desseches
Gnossiennes (6)
Le Piege de Meduse (Sept 'toutes petites danses')
Nocturnes (5)
Sports et Divertissements
Veritables Preludes flasques (pour un chien)
Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses
Concertino for flute, oboe, clarinet and string quartet, op.45
Fantasia (Variations), op.25
Serenade for Strings, op.46
Artists
William Masselos (piano)Works
Music for a FarceScene d'Anabase
Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor, op.15
Piano Fantasy
Piano Variations (1930)
Piano Sonata no.1
Variations and Capriccio for violin and piano
Chapitres tournes en tous sens
Embryons desseches
Gnossiennes (6)
Le Piege de Meduse (Sept 'toutes petites danses')
Nocturnes (5)
Sports et Divertissements
Veritables Preludes flasques (pour un chien)
Vieux sequins et vieilles cuirasses
Concertino for flute, oboe, clarinet and string quartet, op.45
Fantasia (Variations), op.25
Serenade for Strings, op.46
Artists
William Masselos (piano)About
William Masselos, who was born 100 years ago in Niagara Falls, New York and died in New York City in 1992, was among the most distinctive American artists of his generation. Many of Masselos’s spectacular recordings have never been released on CD – until now. There is at least one work that will forever be indelibly associated with Masselos: the massive piano sonata written by Charles Ives between 1902 and 1910, which mysteriously disappeared after the composer sent his fair copy to a friend. Deciphered from the original sketches decades later by composer Lou Harrison – with Ives’s approval – the recreated First Piano Sonata was premiered by William Masselos in 1949. The following year, he made its first recording at Columbia’s New York studios. Ives had poured all his musical resources into the sonata, from Revivalist hymn tunes to ragtime, and Masselos claimed that its grandeur and intensely American spirit said something new to him every time he played it.
Sony Classical’s William Masselos Edition on 7 newly mastered and transferred CDs is a release for which devotees of American piano music have long been clamouring. At last, the wait is over.
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