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Complete Solo Works for Piano
Aaron Copland

Complete Solo Works for Piano

Andrew Cooperstock

Label: Bridge
Format: CD
Barcode: 0090404948527
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Catalog number: BRIDG 9485
Releasedate: 04-08-17
- Leonard Bernstein Centennary in 2018

- Complete works for solo piano, including newly published works

- Includes Bernstein's arrangement of the popular piece El Salon Mexico
In celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centenary (1918-2018), this recording features the composer’s complete solo piano works, plus, as special bonus, the witty and charming “Bridal Suite” for piano four-hands, heard here in its first complete recording. In addition to the better known “Anniversaries”, “Sonata for the Piano”, and “Touches”, Andrew Cooperstock has included Leonard Bernstein’s very first published work, the highly effective transcription of Aaron Copland’s orchestral tone poem “El Salón México”, together with the “Four Sabras”, “Non troppo presto”, and “Music for the Dance, No. II”. The recording encompasses music from the composer's teenage years through his last piano composition, “Touches”, and includes music Bernstein dedicated to friends and colleagues including Lukas Foss, Sergei Koussevitzky, William Schuman, William Kapell, and Stephen Sondheim. The distinguished pianist Andrew Cooperstock is Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder.