The Aeolian Company
Original compositions and arrangements for pianola
by
J.S. Bach, Arnold Bax, Sir F.H. Cowen, Percy Grainger, Eugene Goossens, Herbert Howells, Maurice Ravel, Alfredo Casella, Hubert Parry, Igor Stravinsky and others.
Rex Lawson pianolist
NMC D136
• Discover musical gems from a bygone age with our new recording of Aeolian Company piano rolls (1921) authentically performed by the accomplished pianolist Rex Lawson.
• For over thirty years Rex Lawson has been at the forefront of pianola music throughout the world. He has given concerts throughout Europe and North America, broadcast on hundreds of occasions and is well represented on both LP and CD. He has brought the pianola back to the highest level of international concert giving from Carnegie Hall to the Last Night of the Proms under conductors such as Pierre Boulez and Sir Andrew Davis.
• The piano rolls included in this release were issued by the Aeolian Company of London in 1921 and the compositions of the series received their first performances at the feet of Reginald Reynolds, the Aeolian Company's chief pianolist in October of that year at Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street. The works were composed in response to a request made by Edwin Evans, the British music critic, to a number of British and European composers and the results are varied both in terms of the music itself and in the use of the pianola.
• NMC is pleased to present this disc in our Archive Series, bringing compositions from a lost age to modern audiences who will be delighted to discover these musical gems and a hidden British heritage.
1. J.S. BACH ARR WILLIS Organ Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541 5'22
PERCY GRAINGER Two British Folk Music Settings 6'32
2. Molly on the Shore (No. 19) 4'15
3. Shepherd's Hey (No. 21) 2'17
4. IGOR STRAVINSKY Etude pour Pianola 2'30
5. EUGENE GOOSSENS Rhythmic Dance, Op. 30 3'42
6. HERBERT HOWELLS Phantasy Minuet, Op. 27 8'41
ALFREDO CASELLA Trois Pièces pour Pianola 7'23
7. No. 1 - Prélude 1'41
8. No. 2 - Valse 2'42
9. No. 3 - Ragtime 3'00
GIAN-FRANCESCO MALIPlERO Tre Improvvisi per Pianola 5'01
10. No. 1 2'07
11. No. 2 1'08
12. No. 3 1'46
13. SIR FREDERIC H. COWIN Overture, The Butterfly's Ball 10'38
14. SIR HUBERT PARRY Incidental Music to The Frogs (Aristophanes) 5'22
15. SIR ARNOLD BAX Scherzo 3'42
16. HARRY GILL Caprice 3'17
17. MAURICE RAVEL Frontispice 1'51
DAVID STANHOPE Three Folksongs for Pianola 12'19
18. No. 1 - Lord Bateman 3'57
19. No. 2 - O Shepherd 3'42
20. No. 3 - The Keel Row 4'40
21. ROBIN WALKER Halifax 3'24
TOTAL TIMING 79'57
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