Schempf, Ruthanne

An American Mirage - Griffes, Nevin, Foote, Beach, MacDowell, Copland / Ruthanne Schempf

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2009-06-09

Works: Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Piano Sonata, A. 85; Ethelbert Nevin: Étude in the form of a romance, for piano, Op 18/1; Étude in the form of a scherzo, for piano, Op 18/2; Arthur Foote: Poems ...
Performers: Schempf, Ruthanne

At the turn of the 20th century, American art music was actually German Romanticism practiced by New England composers. This now mostly forgotten music disappeared...continue...