Carolyn Enger - Piano Album I - Six Friends (2013)

Tracklist

01. Piano Album I: Song Without Words
02. Piano Album I: Carol-Pastiche
03. Piano Album I: Serenade for Two Paws
04. Piano Album I: 19 Measures for Jim
05. Piano Album I: Golden Notes on Nearing Fifty
06. Piano Album I: Another Little Song Without Words
07. Piano Album I: This Serpentine Etude
08. Piano Album I: For a Perfect Friend
09. Piano Album I: Marriage Measures
10. Piano Album I: Snapshot of Jack
11. Piano Album I: For Jim
12. Piano Album I: A Little Waltz for Jim at Fifty-Five
13. Piano Album I: A Melody for Shirley
14. Piano Album I: A Talisman for Jim on Christmas Eve
15. Piano Album I: On His Birthday
16. Piano Album I: Ah Jim…
17. Piano Album I: A Berceuse for Jim at Christmas
18. Piano Album I: A Christmas Card for Mary and Rosemary
19. Piano Album I: For A Perfect Sister
20. Piano Album I: A Sarabande for the Only Jim in the World
21. Piano Album I: 60 Notes for Judy
22. Piano Album I: 77 Notes for Rosemary
23. Piano Album I: 99 Notes for the Millennium
24. Piano Album I: For Ben
25. Piano Album I: Waiting to Get Well
26. Piano Album I: 1 + 1 = 3
27. Piano Album I: 40 Chords for Mark on April First
28. 6 Friends: For Marian
29. 6 Friends: For Barbara
30. 6 Friends: For Rosemary
31. 6 Friends: For Mary
32. 6 Friends: For Don
33. 6 Friends: 75 Notes for Jerry

Ned Rorem has been hailed by Time magazine as “the world’s best composer of art songs.” Of his own work he has said, “I conceive all music vocally… it is always the singer within me crying to get out.” This recording features his complete Piano Album I, a series of small-scale but significant piano compositions dating from 1978 to 2001. These and the set Six Friends were largely written as gifts to friends and colleagues, forming musical sketch books which are filled with miniature masterpieces. They have echoes in Rorem’s larger works, and stand in their own right as beautiful gems which create an atmosphere of tranquility and heartfelt tenderness.

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