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Lara Downes|America Again

America Again

Lara Downes

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The title of this release comes from a 1938 poem by Langston Hughes ("Let America be America again...Let it be that great strong land of love"). The album appeared before the 2016 U.S. elections, but for some listeners its embrace of musical diversity may be quite timely. Beyond that, the album embodies the striking ability of Lara Downes to knit very unfamiliar music into recitals that seem so natural and persuasive as to be almost inevitable. Downes is one of a very few classical performers to have realized that concert music with influences from jazz and blues or spirituals makes a natural mix with pieces that actually are jazz or blues or spirituals. Thus the program includes such interesting meeting points as an Art Tatum realization of Irving Berlin's Blue Skies and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's fantasy-like Deep River. Perhaps even more fascinating is the depth to which Downes gets into the body of concert music in this vein, so long suppressed by the modernist diktat. Consider and sample Howard Hanson's little blues lullaby Slumber Song. Another recording of this rare and lovely piece appears on a Naxos Hanson collection from the year 2000 by pianist Thomas Labe. Yet how much more sense it makes here! There are other forgotten gems of this color by Aaron Copland and Roy Harris, and works drawing on other vernacular traditions (the tiny New York Waltzes by Lou Harrison are another real find). The big climax is another forgotten piece, the Fantasie Nègre of Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major symphony orchestra. It's a perfect meeting between Chopin or Grieg and the melodic stuff of the African-American spiritual, and all it needed to bring it to life was the intelligent programming Downes applies here. She brings a consistent tone to widely varied music, and the sound from the Sono Luminus studio is superb. But the truly cutting-edge program is the biggest attraction here. Highly recommended.
© TiVo

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American Caprice (Morton Gould)

1
American Caprice
00:05:03

Lara Downes, Performer - Morton Gould, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

New York Waltzes (Lou Harrison)

2
I. Waltz in C
00:00:46

Lara Downes, Performer - Lou Harrison, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

3
II. Hesitation Waltz
00:01:08

Lara Downes, Performer - Lou Harrison, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

4
III. Waltz in A
00:01:19

Lara Downes, Performer - Lou Harrison, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Shenandoah (arr. for piano) (Anonyme)

5
Shenandoah (arr. for piano)
00:03:57

Lara Downes, Performer - Anonymous, Composer - Traditional, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83 (Amy Beach)

6
From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83
00:03:50

Lara Downes, Performer - Amy Beach, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)

7
No. 10. Deep River
00:05:16

Lara Downes, Performer - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Lonesome Roads (Dan Visconti)

8
Nocturne
00:01:51

Lara Downes, Performer - Dan Visconti, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Poems of the Sea (Ernest Bloch)

9
III. At Sea: Allegro vivo (version for piano)
00:04:19

Lara Downes, Performer - Ernest Bloch, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)

10
Act II: I Loves You, Porgy (arr. N. Simone for piano)
00:04:19

Lara Downes, Performer - George Gershwin, Composer - Nina Simone, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Sueno Recurrente (Angelica Negron)

11
Sueno Recurrente
00:02:46

Lara Downes, Performer - Angelica Negron, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

13 Anniversaries (Leonard Bernstein)

12
No. 3. For Stephen Sondheim
00:01:22

Lara Downes, Performer - Leonard Bernstein, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Promise (David Sanford)

13
Promise
00:02:40

Lara Downes, Performer - David Sanford, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Slumber Song (Howard Hanson)

14
Slumber Song
00:02:34

Lara Downes, Performer - Howard Hanson, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Gladiolus Rag (Scott Joplin)

15
Gladiolus Rag
00:03:43

Lara Downes, Performer - Scott Joplin, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

The Jazz Singer: Blue Skies (arr. A. Tatum for piano) (Art Tatum)

16
The Jazz Singer: Blue Skies (arr. A. Tatum for piano)
00:03:23

Lara Downes, Performer - Art Tatum, Composer - Irving Berlin, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Fantasie negre (Florence Béatrice Price)

17
Fantasie negre
00:07:09

Lara Downes, Performer - Florence Béatrice Price, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Blues No. 1 (Sentimental Melody: Slow Dance) (Aaron Copland)

18
Blues No. 1 (Sentimental Melody: Slow Dance)
00:01:35

Lara Downes, Performer - Aaron Copland, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Melancholia (Duke Ellington)

19
Melancholia
00:03:01

Lara Downes, Performer - Duke Ellington, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Li'l boy named David (Roy Harris)

20
Li'l boy named David
00:03:16

Lara Downes, Performer - Roy Harris, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow (arr. for piano) (Anonyme)

21
The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow (arr. for piano)
00:03:02

Lara Downes, Performer - Anonymous, Composer - H. Arien, Composer

(C) 2016 Sono Luminus (P) 2016 Sono Luminus

Albumbeschreibung

The title of this release comes from a 1938 poem by Langston Hughes ("Let America be America again...Let it be that great strong land of love"). The album appeared before the 2016 U.S. elections, but for some listeners its embrace of musical diversity may be quite timely. Beyond that, the album embodies the striking ability of Lara Downes to knit very unfamiliar music into recitals that seem so natural and persuasive as to be almost inevitable. Downes is one of a very few classical performers to have realized that concert music with influences from jazz and blues or spirituals makes a natural mix with pieces that actually are jazz or blues or spirituals. Thus the program includes such interesting meeting points as an Art Tatum realization of Irving Berlin's Blue Skies and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's fantasy-like Deep River. Perhaps even more fascinating is the depth to which Downes gets into the body of concert music in this vein, so long suppressed by the modernist diktat. Consider and sample Howard Hanson's little blues lullaby Slumber Song. Another recording of this rare and lovely piece appears on a Naxos Hanson collection from the year 2000 by pianist Thomas Labe. Yet how much more sense it makes here! There are other forgotten gems of this color by Aaron Copland and Roy Harris, and works drawing on other vernacular traditions (the tiny New York Waltzes by Lou Harrison are another real find). The big climax is another forgotten piece, the Fantasie Nègre of Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a work performed by a major symphony orchestra. It's a perfect meeting between Chopin or Grieg and the melodic stuff of the African-American spiritual, and all it needed to bring it to life was the intelligent programming Downes applies here. She brings a consistent tone to widely varied music, and the sound from the Sono Luminus studio is superb. But the truly cutting-edge program is the biggest attraction here. Highly recommended.
© TiVo

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