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Marc Blitzstein
First Life: The Rare Early Works
FormatCDLabelOther MindsGenreComposition
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Before the premiere of his legendary WPA political musical The Cradle Will Rock, and his opera Regina (based upon Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes), Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) produced striking chamber music that deserves a wider audience. Yet these scores, by the only American to study composition with both Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger, remain unpublished and rarely played over the past 80 years. Other Minds is pleased to introduce these forgotten treasures, an unknown aspect of Blitzstein’s genius.
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Tracklist
| Solo Piano Works | |||
| 1 | Piano Sonata | 6:50 | |
| Piano Percussion Music | |||
| 2 | Toccata | 2:30 | |
| 3 | Air | 4:49 | |
| 4 | Rondino | 4:31 | |
| 5 | Scherzo, "Bourgeois At Play" | 3:08 | |
| Complete String Quartets | |||
| Quartet For Strings, "Italian" | |||
| 6 | Allegro | 4:13 | |
| 7 | Allegretto | 5:12 | |
| 8 | Presto Possibile | 1:47 | |
| 9 | Lento | 9:04 | |
| Serenade For String Quartet | |||
| 10 | Largo | 5:32 | |
| 11 | Largo | 5:16 | |
| 12 | Largo | 5:43 | |
Credits
- Adam Fong
- Co-producer, Booklet Editor
- Marc Blitzstein
- Composed By
- Marcela Zorro
- Engineer
- Del Sol String Quartet
- Ensemble (6 to 12)
- Howard Pollack
- Liner Notes
- Charles Amirkhanian
- Liner Notes, Executive-Producer
- Sarah Cahill
- Piano (1 to 5)
- Jason O'Connell
- Producer, Edited By, Mastered By
