Exiles' cafe.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Downes, Lara, instrumentalist.

Contributor:

Distler, Jed, arranger of music.

Language:

English

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Piano music.

Folk songs, Hungarian--Hungary--Instrumental settings.

Folk songs, Hungarian.

Hungary.

Folk songs, Hungarian--Instrumental settings.

Mazurkas.

Sonatas (Piano).

Tangos.

Piano music, Arranged.

Rags.

Genre:

Piano music.

Piano music, Arranged.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (60 min., 19 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Steinway & Sons ; [Place of publication not identified] : ArkivMusic, [2013]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Summary:

This music comes from the Exiles' Cafe, a place both real and metaphorical where the travelers of the world gather to find a home away from home, a place where journeys converge and histories collide. The miniatures collected here tell stories of the transformative passage from what is left behind to what is discovered ahead. They speak to vanished worlds and altered lives, to the fragility of destiny and the possibilities of new beginnings: postcards from the Exiles' Cafe.

Contents:

Hungarian folksongs from the Csík district : Sz. 35a / Béla Bartók (5:00)

Mazurka in F-sharp minor, op. 6, no. 1 / Frédéric Chopin (3:31)

Pastoral sonatina : in C major, op. 59, no. 3 / Sergei Prokofiev (4:58)

Dumka no. 2, H. 250 : Contemplation (2:25) ; Dumka no. 3, H. 285bis (1:40) / Bohuslav Martinů

Tango in D minor / Igor Stravinsky (3:02)

Prelude in D minor, op. posth. / Sergei Rachmaninov (3:04)

Lost in the stars / Kurt Weill ; arr. Jed Distler (4:27)

Sonata no. 2 in E major, op. 2. I, Moderato / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (8:48)

Africa. II, Land of romance / William Grant Still (6:53)

Preludes for piano. No. 1 (1:44) ; No. 2 (1:00) ; No. 3 (1:24) ; No. 6 (1:50) / Paul Bowles

Tango : from The exiles' café / Michael Sahl (3:48)

Rag caprice. No. 2, Romance / Darius Milhaud (1:50)

Fragments : op. posth. / Sergei Rachmaninov (2:03)

Mazurka in F minor, op. 68, no. 4 / Frédéric Chopin (2:12)

Piano miniature. No. 6, Addio / Mohammed Fairouz (2:18).

Participant:

Lara Downes, piano (Steinway).

Notes:

Weill's Lost in the stars excerpt from a work for stage; Still's Land of romance excerpt from an orchestral suite; and Sahl's Tango from the Exiles' café originally for clarinet, tenor saxophone, trumpet, percussion, electric violin, piano, and double bass; arr. for piano solo.

Recorded Sept. 12-14, 2012, Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia.

Editions recorded: Rozsnyai Károly, Budapest (Bartók), C.F. Peters, Leipzig (Chopin), Belwin-Mills, Melville (Prokofiev), Editions Max Eschig (Martinů), Mercury Music Corporation (Stravinsky and Bowles), Muzyka, Moscow (Rachmaninoff), Schott (Weill), B. Schott, Mainz (Korngold), William Grant Still Music (Still), Michael Sahl (Sahl), Universal Edition (Milhaud), Songs of Peer (Fairouz).

Compact disc.

Program notes by Lara Downes and performer biographical notes (9 pages : portrait) inserted in container.

Contains:

Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Csíkmegyei népdalok.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Mazurkas, piano, op. 6. No. 1

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953. Pieces, piano, op. 59. Pastoralʹnai︠a︡ sonatina

Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959. Dumkas, piano, no. 2

Martinů, Bohuslav, 1890-1959. Dumkas, piano, no. 3

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Tango, piano

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Preludes, piano, D minor

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Lost in the stars. Lost in the stars; arranged.

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957. Sonatas, piano, no. 2, op. 2, E major. Moderato.

Still, William Grant, 1895-1978. Africa. Land of romance; arranged.

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. Preludes, piano. Selections.

Sahl, Michael, 1934-2018. Exiles' café. Tango; arranged

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974. Rag-caprices. Romance

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Fragments.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Mazurkas, piano, op. 68. No. 4

Fairouz, Mohammed. Miniature, no. 6

OCLC:

828491473

Publisher Number:

034062300167

30016 Steinway & Sons

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