American Ballads

21 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 2 MINUTES • OCT 29 2021

1

Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 1. Un poco allegro

02:56

2

Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 2. In Slow Blues Tempo

03:38

3

Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 3. Allegretto

02:58

4

Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 4. Allegro molto

02:16

5

Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 1. Freely Poetic (For Leo Smit)

02:31

6

Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 2. Soft and Languid (For Andor Foldes)

02:29

7

Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 3. Muted and Sensuous (For William Kapell)

02:17

8

Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 4. With Bounce (For John Kirkpatrick)

01:05

9

Benny Golson's On Gossamer Wings

10:24

10

Roy Harris's American Ballads: 1. Streets of Laredo

01:43

11

Roy Harris's American Ballads: 2. Wayfaring Stranger

01:35

12

Roy Harris's American Ballads: 3. The Bird

01:33

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Roy Harris's American Ballads: 4. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair

01:08

14

Roy Harris's American Ballads: 5. Cod Liver Ile

02:19

15

Rzewski's North American Ballads: 3. Down by the Riverside

05:57

16

Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": 3. The Alcotts

05:35

17

Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 1. Prelude

00:53

18

Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 2. Cowboy Songs (Houlihan, Laredo, and Git Along, Litle Doggies)

01:44

19

Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 3. Blues

03:25

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Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 4. Finale (We're Goin' to Leave Ol' Texas Now)

02:41

21

Dana Suesse's American Nocturne

03:47

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