American Ultramodernists 1920-1950 is a collection of piano pieces by early American modernist composers that may be loosely classified under this term as performed by Steffen Schleiermacher for the MDG Scene imprint. Schleiermacher has imbibed at this particular spring before in some of his Hat Art recordings, but it appears that he has not previously recorded any of these specific pieces. There is only one recording premiere on American Ultramodernists 1920-1950, that being of Henry Cowell's tiny piano piece Hommage à ...
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American Ultramodernists 1920-1950 is a collection of piano pieces by early American modernist composers that may be loosely classified under this term as performed by Steffen Schleiermacher for the MDG Scene imprint. Schleiermacher has imbibed at this particular spring before in some of his Hat Art recordings, but it appears that he has not previously recorded any of these specific pieces. There is only one recording premiere on American Ultramodernists 1920-1950, that being of Henry Cowell's tiny piano piece Hommage à Rudyhar, a shred of manuscript from the early '20s not even a full minute long. Whereas some of his previous recordings of this kind of music emphasizes his power and force at the keyboard, Schleiermacher here wisely approaches all of the material with restraint, discovering levels of sensitivity in the music that belie its "ultramodern" classification. To ears well acquainted with the products of the Second Vienna School, piano works of Rudyhar, Crawford Seeger, and Ruggles may sound...
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