Piano sonata no. 2 : "Concord, Mass., 1840-60". The Alcotts / Charles Ives (7:08) -- Suicide in an airplane / Leo Ornstein (4:42) -- Three preludes / Charles Tomlinson Griffes (7:30) -- In a nutshell. Pastoral / Percy Grainger (11:47) -- Three sonnets / Aaron Copland (7:54) -- Amiable conversation / Henry Cowell (1:02) -- Valse pour les petits lecteurs du Figaro / Igor Stravinsky (1:04) -- Sonata : Death of machines / George Antheil (2:03) -- Poems of the sea. Chanty / Ernest Bloch (3:59) -- Impromptu in two keys / George Gershwin (1:15) -- Nickel in the slot / Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey (2:36) -- Third pentagram : (release). Stars / Dane Rudhyar (3:56) -- Blue voyage : op. 6 / Wallingford Riegger (8:16) -- Music for a five and dime / Henry Brant (2:56) -- Nine preludes. No. 6 / Ruth Crawford Seeger (3:17) -- Sonatina fragmentaria / Paul Bowles (4:52) -- Prelude & blues. Blues / Conlon Nancarrow (2:32) -- Quest / John Cage (1:10).
Twelve short piano pieces : op. 83. A boat slowly sailing / Ernst Krenek (2:43) -- Six preludes. Prelude no. 4 / Otto Luening (2:15) -- From my diary. No. 3 / Roger Sessions (2:06) -- Souvenir : portrait of Paul Bowles / Virgil Thomson (:58) -- Our town. The resting place on the hill : from Our town / Aaron Copland (5:04) -- Seven anniversaries. For Aaron Copland (1:44) ; For William Schuman (:46) / Leonard Bernstein -- Evocations / Carl Ruggles (10:55) -- American ballads. Streets of Laredo / Roy Harris (2:26) -- Prelude & toccata. Prelude / Morton Gould (2:26) -- In a landscape / John Cage (9:06) -- Valentine waltzes / George Antheil (7:15) -- For a happy occasion / Virgil Thomson (:19) -- Three pieces. No. 2 / Earle Brown (1:45) -- Etude (1957) / Mel Powell (2:21) -- Study no. 2 (:46) ; Sarabande (3:14) / La Monte Young -- Prelude for a pensive pupil / Peggy Granville-Hicks (3:02).
Vertical thoughts 4 / Morton Feldman (3:36) -- Five visionary landscapes. I. ; II. ; III. Evening bell / Alan Hovhaness (10:39) -- Piano introduction to "Little house I used to live in" / Frank Zappa (3:15) -- Synchronisms : no. 6, for piano & tape / Mario Davidovsky (7:19) -- Makrokosmos : vol. 2. Tora! Tora! Tora! / George Crumb (2:23) -- A waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen / Lou Harrison (2:28) -- Red garnet waltz / Joan Tower (3:27) -- 49 waltzes for the five boroughs. 1st realization (:17) ; 2nd realization (1:13) / John Cage -- Dejavalse / Tom Constanten (2:57) -- Valse : "in memoriam Maurice Ravel" / Robert Moran (1:56) -- Modern love waltz / Philip Glass (2:51) -- Four piano pieces. No. 4 / Frederic Rzewski (9:29) -- Prelude no. 5 / Christian Wolff (4:15) -- Nocturnes. Spanish dreams ; French dreams ; American dreams / James Sellars (10:18) -- Youth's companion. Riddle song / Ross Lee Finney (2:55).
Opening / Philip Glass (5:21) -- Solo / Lukas Foss (13:04) -- For Cornelius / Alvin Curran (13:47) -- Souvenir / John Cage (7:03) -- Nocturne : The sensualist, dying, recalls his protestant youth / Nils Vigeland (3:13) -- Dance / Stephen Paulus (2:03) -- My friend Mozart / Kamran Ince (4:11) -- Veiled autumn : (Kindertodeslied) / Joseph Schwantner (4:20) -- Song without words / Otto Luening (2:58) -- Changing faces / Alvin Singleton (1:56) -- A Summerfield set. Sonata / Lou Harrison (5:18) -- Three two-part studies / Conlon Nancarrow (3:29).
Note
Works for solo piano; the Davidovsky work also with electronic tape.