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James Scott: Complete Works 1903-1922

Guido Nielsen 形式: CD
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曲目リスト

ディスク： 1

1 A Summer Breeze
2 The Fascinator
3 On The Pike
4 Frog Legs Rag
5 Kansas City Rag
6 My Girl From Anaconda
7 Grace And Beauty
8 Great Scott Rag
9 Valse Venice
10 The Ragtime "Betty"
11 Sunburst Rag
12 Sweetheart Rag
13 Hilarity Rag
14 Ophelia Rag
15 Hearts Longing
16 The Princess Rag
17 Quality Rag
18 Ragtime Oriole
19 The Suffragette

ディスク： 2

1 Climax Rag
2 Take Me Out To Lakeside
3 Evergreen Rag
4 Honeymoon Rag
5 Prosperity Rag
6 Efficiency Rag
7 Paramount Rag
8 Dixie Dimples
9 Rag Sentimental
10 Springtime Of Love
11 New Era Rag
12 Peace And Plenty Rag
13 Troubadour Rag
14 The Shimmie Shake
15 Modesty Rag
16 Pegasus
17 Don't Jazz Me Rag (I'm Music)
18 Victory Rag
19 Broadway Rag

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Ragtime has its loyal fans but doesn't get much attention from most modern listeners. It's often thought of as the generic saloon music you hear in Westerns and other period movies. But ragtime was one of the building blocks of early jazz, and the form is far from artless. Composer, arranger, and pianist James Scott was born in 1885 in southwestern Missouri, a ragtime hotbed. This beautifully packaged, finely annotated double CD traces Scott's development as a composer of piano rags. The earliest pieces, "A Summer Breeze" and "The Fascinator," date from 1903 and show the influence of ragtime legend Scott Joplin on the then-18-year-old Scott. Just six years later, Scott wrote "Grace and Beauty," an elegant piece that demonstrates the young composer's strong command of structure. Later pieces show Scott subtly expanding the form. "Rag Sentimental" strikes the ear with its minor key sonorities, while the quirky "Pegasus" should do much to dispel the uninformed notion that all rags sound alike. Throughout the album, Dutch-born pianist Guido Nielsen brings his virtuoso talents to this jaunty and physically demanding music. The Complete Works is a must for ragtime collectors and an eye-opener for all kinds of music lovers. --Fred Cisterna

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  • 製品サイズ ‏ : ‎ 14.58 x 0.99 x 12.75 cm; 119.92 g
  • メーカー ‏ : ‎ Basta Records
  • EAN ‏ : ‎ 0723724333628
  • レーベル ‏ : ‎ Basta Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005OW5Z
  • ディスク枚数 ‏ : ‎ 2
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5つ星のうち5.0 comolete works1903-1922 james scott
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Dr H
5つ星のうち5.0 Tasteful and authentic
2011年7月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of James Scott's piano music as recorded by Guido Nielsen. For one thing, for too many years Scott's music has been very difficult to come by, other than the one tune or two stuck into a collection with other composers. This recording is, I believe, the first attempt to produce a collection of all of Scott's known piano compositions. Considering that "Joplin/Scott/Lamb" is to ragtime what "the three B's" are to classical music, it's about time.

Reading through the reviews of various ragtime recordings,
they seem to fall into one of two general categories.

Either:

1) "This guy races around all over the place,
adds too many embellishments, ignores the
composer's intent, and just doesn't
understand ragtime!"

or

2) "This guy slavishly sticks to the score like
it was Bach; has no feeling; no life; and
obviously he just doesn't understand ragtime!"

Well.

After years of studying, playing, composing, and performing ragtime one thing I can say is that ragtime is nothing if not flexible. It lends itself both to Joshua Rifkin-style classical interpretation, and to Dave Jason semi-improvisational interpretation. Neither approach is going to please everybody, and at some point you just have to draw the line, buy the recording, listen to the music, and decide for yourself.

The pieces on this recording are carefully and tastefully performed with, I believe, a serious and respectful desire to execute them as the composer intended. Tempos range from lively without being breakneck, to restrained without being somnolent (as a few of the Rifkin recordings are...) Phrasing flows with the rich melodic content, and supporting voices are clearly discernable.

Sure, a few of the tunes could have benefited from a more brisk, embellished treatment. But for a comprehensive first recording I personally feel that it's more important to get "what the composer said" out there, first. Once people have a chance to hear what the composer wrote, then they can take it and make new, more personally interpretive recordings as they deem appropriate.

If you're not familiar with the works of James Scott, this collection is as good an introduction as any. And if you are familiar with his work, this is a very handy package containing all of it (that we know of) on two disks. Here is music every bit as inventive as Joplin's, and yet very different in character. Mr. Nielsen clearly took the time to understand James Scott, and this recording will, I think, become a classic like the Rifkin recordings of Joplin.

Highly recommended.
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E. G. Jones
5つ星のうち5.0 These interpretations have life
2004年11月16日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I play most of Scott myself and I realised pretty soon that his music cannot be approached in the same way as Joplin's. His accomplished keyboard style inclines people to go flat out as if they were playing a sort of syncopated Liszt study. While this is good fun it fails to transmit his musical personality which, in my opinion, combines earnest energy with endearing naivety. After a while you realise that the trick is to take a light approach, even if the writing is heavy. Take this too far though, and you lose the energy, not far enough and you lose his lyricism in a blur of notes - it's a delicate balance.

The first thing that impressed me was how well Mr Neilsen achieves this important balance. The life force in Scott's music is evident in abundance but there is never any of the heavy-handed thumping sometimes brought to bear on these rags by technically good players. He varies the tempo interestingly from piece to piece and his accents catch the ear. The piano sound is full and clear but never overwhelms with a lot of noise and pedal, which fault is a sure way to kill Scott.

While the Scott rags are not really hard piano music in the strictly physical sense, they do have, in places, a certain mild awkwardness under the hand which is difficult to describe in words. To play them well it is necessary to accommodate this awkwardness musically and with rhythmic fluency; again, this is something Mr Neilsen does very well indeed.

The liner notes are among the best I have read for any CD, with copious and interesting discussion of each rag and of Scott's music and life.

Speaking as one who has played these pieces for many years, this CD gives me much to think about and learn from.
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B. FILBERT
5つ星のうち4.0 Glad it was done, but some qualms
2005年8月29日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I have been waiting for more than twenty years for this recording. I first heard James Scott's works in the 1970's, and hoped that there would be a "complete works" recording. So, I am very glad this has finally happened. First, let me say what I like about this recording.

1) It covers all of Scott's compositions (at least the ones we know of, and that are completely by him).

2) The notes that come with the recording are very well done and interesting.

3) The discs themselves are quite attractive (much effort went into this whole endeavor to give it a complete and consistent look and feel).

4) The sound on the recordings is very good.

Now my qualms. I tend to agree with the review that felt Mr. Nielsen's range of expressiveness is too limited. After hearing these pieces played by others (recorded and live), it seems that the pianist here simply has come up with a rather rigid formula for interpreting Scott's rags (the songs and waltzes are allowed a bit more freedom). For some of these rags, this jaunty, rather chipper style works well. For others (I'm thinking particularly of the Troubadour Rag and "Modesty" here - both of which have received richer, more nuanced recordings elsewhere), it doesn't. While Scott is clearly not as varied and subtle a composer as Joplin or Lamb (there is no frequent thread of melancholy, striving for innovation, or a sense of the "outsider looking in" quality I find in much Joplin and some Lamb), his later works allow for much more variety of interpretation than we get here. Sometimes, especially on the second disc, it sounds uncomfortably like a player-piano.

So, I would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more of the core Classic Ragtime literature, but I hope that other recordings will eventually be made to explore this repertoire from a slightly more nuanced perspective.
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"Gimpy" Peach Johnson
5つ星のうち5.0 Sheer magic!
2003年12月12日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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Wow! That's it. Wow! This is a REMARKABLE two-CD set collecting the complete works (rags, waltzes, and songs) of James Scott--except for "Calliope Rag" which has been attributed to Scott (and Bob Darch who supposedly finished the piece from an incomplete manuscript). Others here have likened Guido Nielsen's interpretation of Scott's music with the legendary recordings Joshua Rifkin made of Scott Joplin in the 1970s, and that's certainly appropriate. James Scott has been ignored by those recording ragtime for too long, possibly because his pieces are so difficult to play (I play a few of them myself). Guido Nielsen plays these rags so gracefully! He plays the music as written (no embellishments), and proves that the pieces have plenty of pep and richness on their own. This is exciting ragtime music, played in concert style on a full-sounding piano, NOT some rinky-tink out-of-tune bar room piany. The accompanying booklet is worth the price alone. Its 36 pages are printed in full-color with the most extensive liner notes I have ever seen for a two-CD set (many thanks to Mr. Galen Wilkes!) We get the most complete biography of Scott available today, and detailed commentaries on each piece, along with a healthy dose of color reproductions of original sheet music covers. This entire production is top-notch, obviously a labor of love. Anyone with an interest in ragtime, early jazz, or classical music (and YES, I would consider this a type of classical music) should have this set. I can't begin to fathom the work that went into the production of this set, and I am extremely grateful to those involved for such an amazing tribute to James Scott that is long overdue.
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5つ星のうち5.0 Not for Squares.
2018年1月24日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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once again, critics can stuff it. these are really good readings. don't fall for the snobby reviews. those people think too much of themselves.
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