Works for Violin - Cowell, Antheil, Mahler, et al / Abe,

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Album Summary

Performers

• Miwako Abe (Violin)
• Michael Harvey (Piano)

Composers

• Henry Cowell (1897 - 1965)
• Johanna Beyer (1888 - 1944)
• Larry Polansky (1954 - )
• Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972)
• Charles Dodge (1942 - )
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 - 1953)
• George Antheil (1900 - 1959)
• David Mahler (1944 - )

Notes & Reviews:

Henry Cowell (1897-1965), in the introduction to the first edition on his prophetic "symposium" titled American Composers on American Music (1933), described features of contemporary American music and outlined categories of composers. The first group he introduced-"Americans who have developed indigenous materials or are specially interested in expressing some phase of the American spirit in their works"-might be taken as a historical framework for the composers represented on this recording. The tradition that Cowell saw emerging from the music of Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Charles Seeger, and others supported the work of a handful of iconic names-Cowell himself, also George Antheil, Stefan Wolpe, and Ruth Crawford. Their place in that tradition lies at the heart of this recording by Miwako Abe (violin) and Michael Kieran Harvey (piano). This program traces music written for violin by progenitors of this independent strain in American music from the earlier-century composers.

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Works Details

Cowell, Henry : Sonata for violin & piano, HC 705

• Performers: Miwako Abe (Violin); Michael Harvey (Piano)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 16 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 05/29/1945

Wolpe, Stefan : Second Piece for Violin Alone, C. 165

• Performer: Miwako Abe (Violin)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1966

Antheil, George : Sonata, for violin, piano & drums no 2, W. 131

• Performers: Miwako Abe (Violin); Michael Harvey (Piano)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 7 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1923

Beyer, Johanna : Suite for violin & piano

• Performers: Miwako Abe (Violin); Michael Harvey (Piano)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 6 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937

Dodge, Charles : Etudes for violin & tape :: Etude IV

• Performer: Miwako Abe (Violin)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1994

Dodge, Charles : Etudes for violin & tape :: Etude II

• Performer: Miwako Abe (Violin)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 4 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1994

Mahler, David : Maxfield's Reel, for unaccompanied violin

• Performer: Miwako Abe (Violin)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 8 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1983

Polansky, Larry : Movement for John Cage, for solo violin

• Performers: Miwako Abe (Violin); Michael Harvey (Piano)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 5 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1975

Seeger, Ruth Crawford : Nocturne, for violin & piano

• Performers: Miwako Abe (Violin); Michael Harvey (Piano)
• Notes: Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre Southbank, Melbourne, Australia (08/09/2005/08/10/2005)
• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1923