CDBlue rags / Ian Munro, piano.
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Ragtime suite (2001) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on 2005. |
Ann Ghandar | Ian Munro | 9 mins, 1 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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After dinner rag (2003) for piano solo Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 1 mins, 59 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Alexander rag (1998) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 2 mins, 47 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Cocktail rag (2003) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney., on 2005. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 2 mins, 59 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Get well rag (1998) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 3 mins, 27 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
Peggy's rag (1996) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 3 mins, 6 sec. | ||
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Removalist rag (1996) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 2 mins, 18 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Revolving doors (2003) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on 2005. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 1 mins, 57 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Rug rag (1996) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 3 mins, 3 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Russian rag II (1996) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 2 mins, 42 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Sunday rag (1997) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 4 mins, 24 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Zee rag (1998) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, on 2005. |
Elena Kats-Chernin | Ian Munro | 2 mins, 32 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Blues — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney |
Graeme Koehne | Ian Munro | 4 mins, 59 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
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Blue rags (2005) — solo piano Recorded/performed at: City Recital Hall, Angel place, Sydney, on Dec 05. |
Ian Munro | Ian Munro | 15 mins, 2 sec. | Buy as MP3 |
Also includes: Silhouettes / Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.
Product details
This new CD features Ian Munro playing a selection of
rags by Elena Kats-Chernin, Ann Ghandar and by Ian himself, as well
as a short piece by Graeme Koehne and a set of works by the Uzbekh
composer Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky.
Since it was initiated by Scott Joplin, the rag form of piano music
has become a universal favourite, and Australian composers have
been exploring this form for some years now. Elena Kats-Chernin has
especially taken to the rag, and her rags have become a kind of
musical diary of her life. All of her works are intensely musical
and most enjoyable to listen to. Quite independently Ann Ghandar,
from Armidale, has been exploring the form as well, writing a
charming series of works initially intended for the delight of
children learning the piano. Ian is himself a formidable composer,
and his rags are more elaborate in their exposition and afford the
pianist a more virtuosic showcase.
Graeme Koehne’s Blues is not a rag, but has the
lightheartedness and dance feel of the rag.
Ian
Munro admires Yanov-Yanovsky as a composer, and commissioned
him to write a set of piano works with a rag feel. Yanov-Yanvsky
delivered this amazing set of pieces, in which the only rag is a
piece dedicated to John Cage and consists of 33 seconds of silence!
Each of the other six pieces is dedicated to a seminal 20th century
composer, and each is a miniature soundworld conjuring up an aspect
of each composer: Stravinsky, Ravel/Gershwin, Debussy, Ives,
Schnittke and Debussy.
Munro is a superb pianist, who brings poetry, musicality and
virtuosity to all he performs, and it is difficult to imagine these
works performed better.
Duration: 78 min.
Liner notes include program notes and biographical notes on performer.
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