Hyperion sincerely thought that this volume, number eight in its survey of the complete music of American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk as played by pianist Philip Martin, would be the last in the series. Apparently there is still a bit more of Gottschalk's piano music left for Martin to record. In any event, Hyperion's survey of Gottschalk recordings is still by far the most comprehensive and complete yet done, and Gottschalk Piano Music, Vol. 8, contains material that is extremely rare on recordings, drawn from that ...
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Hyperion sincerely thought that this volume, number eight in its survey of the complete music of American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk as played by pianist Philip Martin, would be the last in the series. Apparently there is still a bit more of Gottschalk's piano music left for Martin to record. In any event, Hyperion's survey of Gottschalk recordings is still by far the most comprehensive and complete yet done, and Gottschalk Piano Music, Vol. 8, contains material that is extremely rare on recordings, drawn from that part of his output intended primarily for commercial purposes.That Gottschalk should invest his energy in producing salon music should come as no surprise to those who know it; after all, some credit Gottschalk's 1855 piano piece The Last Hope for serving as the touchstone of the salon genre itself. That Gottschalk willingly wrote such "trash" is enough to render him a non-entity to certain expert opinions, and annotator Jeremy Nicholas displays no great love for this aspect of...
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