Yvar Mikhashoff
Panorama Of American Piano Music From Antheil To Zappa 1911 To 1991
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Panorama of American Piano Music is a comprehensive survey of 20th century piano works, beginning with Ives’ “The Alcotts” movement from the Concord Sonata (1911) through 1991.
Every decade is represented with works from between those years.
Pianist Yvar Mikhashoff (1941-93) was a master at presenting marathon concerts on a single theme. The Panorama was one of them, exploring the remarkable diversity of 20th century American music, from serialism to minimalism, populist to avant garde experimentalism, short works for amateur pianists to virtuoso pieces. Never before has such a survey of piano music been represented.
Importantly, Mikhashoff often chose to represent composers not by their well known works but by selecting unusual or unknown, sometimes taken from manuscript scores.
62 works, presented in chronological order, from composers Antheil to Zappa, written between the years 1911-91.
Specially priced deluxe 4-CD set in slipcase with 28-page book containing many photos. Extensive liner notes by Drew Massey, Yvar Mikhashoff and Brian Brandt.
Yvar Mikhashoff, piano
Release notes
Set consists of Foldover cover with box containing 4 black cardboard-jacketed CDs and a 27-page booklet
| 1-1 | Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-60" (1911-15) : III. The Alcotts | 7:08 | |
| 1-2 | Suicide In An Airplane (c. 1916) | 4:42 | |
| Three Preludes (1919) | |||
| 1-3 | I. | 2:21 | |
| 1-4 | II. | 1:59 | |
| 1-5 | III. | 3:10 | |
| 1-6 | In A Nutshell: III. Pastorale (1916) | 11:47 | |
| Three Sonnets (1918-19) | |||
| 1-7 | I. | 1:55 | |
| 1-8 | II. | 2:30 | |
| 1-9 | III. | 3:29 | |
| 1-10 | Amiable Conversation | 1:02 | |
| 1-11 | Valse Pour Les Petits Lecteurs Du Figaro (1917) | 1:04 | |
| Sonata: Death Of Machines | |||
| 1-12 | I. | 0:27 | |
| 1-13 | II. | 0:34 | |
| 1-14 | III. | 0:25 | |
| 1-15 | IV. | 0:47 | |
| 1-16 | Poems Of The Sea: II. Chanty (1922) | 3:59 | |
| 1-17 | Impromptu In Two Keys (1924) | 1:15 | |
| 1-18 | Nickel In The Slot (1936) | 2:36 | |
| 1-19 | Third Pentagram (Release): IV. Stars (1926) | 3:56 | |
| 1-20 | Blue Voyage, Op. 6 (1927) | 8:16 | |
| 1-21 | Music For A Five And Dime (1932) | 2:56 | |
| 1-22 | Nine Preludes: No. 6 (1924-28) | 3:17 | |
| 1-23 | Sonatina Fragmentaria (1933) | 4:52 | |
| 1-24 | Prelude And Blues: Blues (c. 1935) | 2:32 | |
| 1-25 | Quest (1935) | 1:35 | |
| 2-1 | Twelve Short Pieces, Op. 83: VI. A Boat Slowly Sailing (1938) | 2:43 | |
| 2-2 | Six Preludes: Prelude No. 4 (1938-51) | 2:15 | |
| 2-3 | From My Diary, No. 3 (1938) | 2:06 | |
| 2-4 | Souvenir: Portrait Of Paul Bowles (1935) | 0:58 | |
| 2-5 | The Resting Place On The Hill, From "Our Town" (1940) | 5:04 | |
| Seven Anniversaries (1943, rev. 1954) | |||
| 2-6 | I. For Aaron Copland | 1:44 | |
| 2-7 | VII. For William Schuman | 0:46 | |
| Evocations (1934-43, rev. 1954) | |||
| 2-8 | I. | 2:13 | |
| 2-9 | II. | 4:17 | |
| 2-10 | IV. | 4:25 | |
| 2-11 | American Ballads: I. Streets Of Laredo (1946) | 2:26 | |
| 2-12 | Prelude & Toccata: Prelude (1945) | 2:26 | |
| 2-13 | In A Landscape (1948) | 9:06 | |
| Valentine Waltzes (1949) | |||
| 2-14 | I. | 2:28 | |
| 2-15 | II. | 2:03 | |
| 2-16 | III. | 2:44 | |
| 2-17 | For A Happy Occasion (1951) | 0:19 | |
| 2-18 | Three Pieces: No. 2 (1951) | 1:45 | |
| 2-19 | Etude (1957) | 2:21 | |
| 2-20 | Study No. 2 (1959) | 0:46 | |
| 2-21 | Sarabande (1959, rev. 1980) | 3:14 | |
| 2-22 | Prelude For A Pensive Pupil (1958) | 3:02 | |
| 3-1 | Vertical Thoughts 4 (1963) | 3:36 | |
| Five Visionary Landscapes Op. 214 (1965) | |||
| 3-2 | I. | 4:34 | |
| 3-3 | II. | 2:31 | |
| 3-4 | III. Evening Bell | 3:34 | |
| 3-5 | Piano Introduction to "Little House I Used To Live In" (1970) | 3:15 | |
| 3-6 | Synchronisms No. 6 For Piano And Tape (1970) | 7:19 | |
| 3-7 | Makrokosmos, Vol. 2: VII. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) (Scorpio) (1973) | 2:23 | |
| 3-8 | A Waltz For Evelyn Hinrichsen (1977) | 2:28 | |
| 3-9 | Red Garnet Waltz | 3:27 | |
| 3-10 | 49 Waltzes For The Five Boroughs (1977) - 1st Realization | 0:17 | |
| 3-11 | 49 Waltzes For The Five Boroughs (1977) - 2nd Realization | 1:13 | |
| 3-12 | Dejavalse (1977) | 2:57 | |
| 3-13 | Valse "In Memoriam Maurice Ravel" (1976) | 2:57 | |
| 3-14 | Modern Love Waltz | 2:51 | |
| 3-15 | Four Piano Pieces: No. 4 (1977) | 9:29 | |
| 3-16 | Prelude No. 5 (1981) | 4:15 | |
| Nocturnes (1981) | |||
| 3-17 | I. Spanish Dreams | 4:17 | |
| 3-18 | II. French Dreams | 2:14 | |
| 3-19 | III. American Dreams | 3:47 | |
| 3-20 | Youth's Companion: V. Riddle Song (1981) | 2:55 | |
| 4-1 | Opening (1981) | 5:21 | |
| 4-2 | Solo (1981) | 13:04 | |
| 4-3 | For Cornelius (1982) | 13:47 | |
| 4-4 | Souvenir (1983) | 7:03 | |
| 4-5 | Nocturne: The Sensualist. Dying. Recalls His Protestant Youth (1987) | 3:13 | |
| 4-6 | Dance (1987) | 2:03 | |
| 4-7 | My Friend Mozart (1987) | 4:11 | |
| 4-8 | Veiled Autumn (Kindertodeslied) (1987) | 4:20 | |
| 4-9 | Song Without Words (1987) | 2:58 | |
| 4-10 | Changing Faces (1970 / 1987) | 1:56 | |
| 4-11 | A Summerfield Set: I. Sonata (1988) | 5:18 | |
| Three Two-Part Studies (c. 1935, premiered 1991) | |||
| 4-12 | I. | 1:04 | |
| 4-13 | II. | 1:29 | |
| 4-14 | III. | 0:51 | |
- Michael Hynes
- Edited By, Producer [Editing]
- David Avidor
- Engineer
- Drew Massey
- Liner Notes
- Brian Brandt
- Liner Notes, Producer, Art Direction
- Steven Maxx
- Photography By
- Yvar Mikhashoff
- Piano, Liner Notes
- Haydée Schvartz
- Producer [Assistant]
- Luk Vaes
- Producer [Assistant]
- Sheridan Seyfried
- Producer [Editing]
- Samuel Clay Birmaher
- Producer [Editing], Post Production
