Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics
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Brand: Glenna JeanComposer: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Conductor: Richard Rosenberg
Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-22
Music Label: Naxos American
Soundtracks:
- Grande Tarantelle, for piano & string quintet (or chamber ensemble), Op. 67 (RO 259)
- Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des gibaros for piano, Op. 31, D. 147 (RO 250)
- The Dying Poet, meditation for piano, D. 45 (RO 75)
- Tournament Galop, for piano, D. 153 (RO 264)
- O ma charmante, ?pargnez-moi!, caprice for piano, Op. 44, D. 107 (RO 182)
- Le bananier, chanson n?gre for piano, Op. 5, D. 14 (RO 21)
- Manchega, ?tude de concert for piano, Op. 38, D. 86 (RO 143)
- Grande Tarantelle, for 2 pianos, Op. 67 (RO 260): No. 4
- Berceuse, song for voice & piano ('Slumber on, baby dear'), D. 21 (RO 28)
- Symphony No. 1: 'La nuit des tropiques' (Night in the Tropics), for orchestra, D. 104 (RO 255): Movement 1
- Symphony No. 1: 'La nuit des tropiques' (Night in the Tropics), for orchestra, D. 104 (RO 255): Movement 2
Music reviews of Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics
Music Review: A worthwhile contribution to musical history
Rating: 4 Stars
The reviewers who complain of "naive" and "weak" orchestration should read the liner notes. The orchestrations are not Gottschalk's, mostly, but those of Richard Rosenberg, artistic director of the Hot Springs Music Festival. And while it may seem easy to blast Rosenberg, Gottschalk was no master of orchestration himself. I played in the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra this summer, including recording more Gottschalk (as well as Nazareth and Bares) for Naxos, and I promise that Gottschalk's treatment of Mehul's "Grande Chasse de Jeune Henri," which will soon be released on Naxos, will leave no doubt in your mind that Gottschalk was right to restrict most of his activity to the piano. (More proof that Gottschalk was indeed the the "Chopin of the Creoles")
At any rate, this series of recordings seems to me a worthwhile historical project. There is some really beautiful music on these discs, in addition to some music that really need never have been revived. In any case, the listener to this disc will find some enjoyment, little offense, and much food for thought about the development of American musical culture.
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