LOUISIANA - A Pianist's Journey
Kenneth Boulton - piano

Louisiana Influenced Piano Music By Walter Niemann, Roy Spaulding Stoughton, John Parsons Beach, Ferde Grof,
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Cedric Wilmont Lemont, Albert W. Ketelbey and Virgil Thomson.

Louisiana Suite, Op. 97 by Walter Niemann; Louisiana Nights, Valse Creole, by Roy Spaulding Stoughton; New Orleans Miniatures by John Parsons Beach; Mississippi Suite by Ferde Grofé; La Savane, Ballade Creole, Op. 3 by Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Creole Sketches, Op. 15 by Cedric Wilmont Lemont; Sweet Louisiana by Albert W. Ketelbey; and Louisiana Story by Virgil Thomson.

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Bach/Siloti: Prelude in B minor (BWV 855a); French Overture [Partita] in B minor (BWV 831); Bach/Petri: “Sheep May Safely Graze” (BWV 208); Bach/Busoni: “Awake, the voice commands” (BWV 645); French Suite No.5 in G Major (BWV 816); Toccata in D Major (BWV 912); Bach/Busoni: “I call on Thee, Lord” (BWV 639); Italian Concerto in F Major (BWV 971); Bach/Godowsky: Aria, from Violin Sonata No.3 in A Minor (BWV 1003); French Suite No.4 in E flat Major (BWV 815); Bach/Kempff: Chorale Prelude: It is Surely the Time/Now Rejoice, My Beloved Christ (BWV 307 & 734); Bach/Kempff: Siciliano from Flute Sonata No.2 in E flat Major (BWV 1031); Fantasia in C minor (BWV 906); Bach/Hess: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (BWV 147)

Film Themes and Variations Includes Midnight on the Cliffs; Romeo and Juliet; Midnight Cowboy; A Star is Born(1937); Waltz Suite (Rozsa); From the Terrace; Rocco and His Brothers; Kings Row; Invitation; The Sand Pebbles; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Piano Music of African-Americans. FLORENCE PRICE: Sonata; Dances in the Canebrakes; W. G. STILL: Three Visions; MARGARET BONDS: Troubled Water; ED BLAND: Sketches Set VII. Althea Waites, piano.

Sonata, Op. 20; Bagatelles, Op. 12; Variations, Op. 9; The Vintner's Daughter, Op. 23. Eric Parkin, piano.

Piano works by Robert Schumann and Frederic Chopin. SCHUMANN: Carnaval, Op. 9; CHOPIN: Three Mazurkas; Valse in E minor; Nocturne in D flat major; Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49. Esther Lee Kaplan, piano.

Rachmaninoff: Tears; Russian Easter; Milhaud: Brazileira; Bach: Vivace; Mozart: Andante-sonata K448; Gershwin: Prelude No. 2; Madeleine Dring: Lillliburlero, Tarantelle; Will Reed: Prelude to Annie the Valiant; Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba; Goodman: Stomping at the Savoy; Tansman: Cakewalk; F. Hadden: Bicentennial Suite,The Forgotten Factor; R. Hadden: The Bells Must Ring! Richard and Francis Hadden, duo-pianists.

May 11th, 1978, Pasadena, CA (complete program) - Variations Brillantes, Opus 12; Impromptu in F-sharp Major; Ballade No. 1 in G minor; Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor; Barcarolle in F-sharp Major; Three Mazurkas, Two Etudes; Nocturne in E Major, Scherzo No. 1 in B minor - (Encores) Valse Oubliée (Liszt); Etude (Debussy)

January 24th, 1976, Pasadena, CA (complete program) - Fantasie in F Minor, Twenty-Four Preludes, Sonata in B Minor - (Encores) Song Without Words No. 32 (Mendelssohn), Etude (Debussy), Waltz A-Flat Major, (Chopin.)

Sonata for Piano (L'homme arme); Summer Pieces; Piano Fantasy; Black Raindrops. Steven Herbert Smith, piano.- Capriccio for Piano 4 Hands - Carol Beall and Lucia Unrau, duo-pianists.

Chabrier: Pieces Pittoresques and Bouuree Fantasque; Debussy: Suite Bergamasque. Margaret Mills, piano.

SCHONTHAL: Canticles (1987); Gestures (1978); Self-Portrait (1991); Liebermann: Sonata No 2 (1983); Sonata No. 1 (1977).

Roger Nixon: Selections from Twelve Preludes (1984), Music for Piano (1994); Ravel: Sonatine; Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs; Busoni: Fantasia nach J.S. Bach; Schubert: Sonata in A Major (D. 959)

Waltz No. 36 in F Major, D.365; Sonata in A minor, D.784; Sonata in B-flat Major, D.960; Hungarian Melodie in B minor, D.817; Allegretto in C minor, D.915; Eleven Landler, from 17 Landler, D.366; March in E Major, D.606.

Roger Nixon: Seven Preludes (2000); Three Preludes from "12 Preludes" (1984). Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K.511; March in C Major, K408/I; Fantasia in D minor, K. 397/385g; Rondo in D Major, K. 485; Adagio in B minor, K. 540; Minuet in D Major, K355/576b; Gigue in G Major, K. 574; 10 Variations in G Major on "Les Hommes pieusement" (Gluck), K. 455; Sonata in D Major, K. 576.

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B flat Major; Bach: Toccata and Fugue in E minor; Bach-Busoni: Toccata and Fugue in D minor; Menotti: Ricercare and Toccata on a theme from "The Old Maid and the Thief"; Beethoven: Sonata No. 25 in G Major; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A minor; Chopin: Berceuse in D flat Major, Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor; Brahms: Intermezzo in E Major, intermezzo in C Major: Liszt: Consolation No. 3 in D flat Major; Paganini-Liszt-Busoni: La Campanella.

Nocturnes by Kazimierz Henisz, Mikhail Glinka, Adolph Gutmann, Leopold Godowsky, Walter Niemann, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Ethelbert Nevin, Frederic Chopin, Morton Gould, Abram Chasins, John Field, Alexander Gretchaninov, Ingacy Krzyzanowski, Giovanni Sgambati, Julius Benedict, Peter Tchaikowsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff.

TAKTAKISHVILI, OTAR - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor (Moscow Phil. Orchestra, Jungran Khwarg, piano; Dong Hyock Hyun, cond.); BALAKIREV, MILY - Tamara, Symphonic Poem (Moscow Philh. Orch, Dong Hyock Hyun, cond.) DDD.

Elinor Remick Warren: Along the Western Shore; William Grant Still: Seven Traceries; Richard Saylor: Five Pieces for Piano Lloyd Rodgers: Etcetera Variations (duo-piano with pianist Mark Uranker)

Sonata Breve, Sonantensatz, Reverberations, Variations in Search of a Theme, Fragments from a Woman's Diary

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in G Major; Fryderyk Chopin: Four Mazurkas (Op. 33), Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor; Claude Debussy: Reflets Dans L'Eau; Enrique Granados: Andaluza No. 5 in E Minor, Rondalla Aragonesa No. 6 in D Major; Franz Liszt: Sonetto 123 Del Petrarca (Années de Pèlerinage), Concert Paraphrase on Verdi's 'Rigoletto'

Odeon: Tango Brasileiro; Brejeiro: Tango; Fon Fon; Apanhei-te Cavaquinho: Choro/Polka; Garoto; Bambino; Carioca; Duvidoso: Tango; Cutuba; Tango Brasileiro; Atrevdo: Choro; Coração que sente: Valsa; Ouro Sobre Azul; Cavaquinho: Porque Choro? - Choro; Labirinto; Nenê: Tango; Esta Chumbado; Pierrot; Perigoso; Tupinamba: Choro