Bolcom - Piano Rags

Bolcom - Piano Rags

Bolcom - Piano Rags
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Composer: William Bolcom
Performer: John Murphy
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Albany Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Eubie's Lucky Day (Rag Obsession)
  2. Three Ghost Rags: Graceful Ghost Rag
  3. Three Ghost Rags: The Poltergeist (Rag Fantasy)
  4. Three Ghost Rags: Dream Shadows
  5. Raggin' Rudi
  6. The Gardenia (Slow Drag)
  7. Tabby Cat Walk (Slow Two-step)
  8. California Porcupine Rag
  9. Rag-Tango
  10. Last Rag
Music CD 2
  1. Knight Hubert
  2. Three Classic Rags - Glad Rag
  3. - Eiptaph for Louis Chauvin (Slow Rag)
  4. - Incineratorag
  5. Seabiscuits (from three popular rags)
  6. Fields of Flowers
  7. The Garden of Eden - Old Adam (Two Step)
  8. - The Eternal Feminine (Slow Drag)
  9. - The Serpent's Kiss (Rag Fantasy)
  10. - Through Eden's Gate (Cakewalk)
  11. Lost Lady Rag
  12. Epithalamium

Music reviews of Bolcom - Piano Rags

Music Review: "Salon" (not "Saloon") Ragtime
Rating: 3 Stars

It's a matter of taste whether one likes ragtime in its "saloon" or "salon" form. Personally I prefer the former, because ragtime was originally performed in saloons and brothels in two of the main centers of early 20th Century popular music -- New Orleans and Sedalia, Missouri. In other words, it was popular entertainment for a popular audience. Admittedly, Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb (among others) had higher aspirations --- nevertheless, the music's main appeal was the sheer, high-energy "charge" of the music. That's what I find largely missing in more classically-oriented pianists like John Murphy, who, like Joshua Rifkin and John Arpin before him, seem intent on turning the music into something appropriate for a staid Carnegie Hall audience. Not that there aren't fine rags here that occasionally capture the flavor of raw Bohemianism --- pieces like "Eubie's Lucky Day," "Raggin' Rudi," "California Porcupine Rag," and "The Serpent's Kiss" all have their moments. But even on these, the dead weight of Murphy's genteel hand takes a lot of the "dance" out of the music. The concert-hall "echo" effect contributes even more to the annoyingly sanitized quality. Paradoxically, from my point of view, the best piece on the entire set is the slow drag called "The Eternal Feminine," since it's a deliberately laid-back composition to begin with, much like the famous "Heliotrope Bouquet" of Louis Chauvin. For those, however, who want Rags to Really Dance To, I'd recommend Richard Zimmerman's Complete Joplin Rags, some of "Perfessor" Bill Edwards's solo ragtime discs, or, best of all, almost any of the piano rag discs performed by Scott Kirby or David Thomas Roberts. Best single "saloon" disc ever? Track down Roberts's compilation of "The Collected Brun Campbell." Now THERE'S real ragtime!!!"
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