First Life: The Rare Early Works, by Marc Blitzstein

First Life: The Rare Early Works

by Marc Blitzstein

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1.	Sarah Cahill - Piano Sonata 07:01	buy track
2.	Sarah Cahill - Piano Percussion Music: Toccata 02:31	buy track
3.	Sarah Cahill - Piano Percussion Music: Air 04:51	buy track
4.	Sarah Cahill - Piano Percussion Music: Rondino 04:36	buy track
5.	Sarah Cahill - Scherzo, "Bourgeois at Play" 03:10	buy track
6.	Del Sol String Quartet - Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Allegro 04:16	buy track
7.	Del Sol String Quartet - Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Allegretto 05:17	buy track
8.	Del Sol String Quartet - Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Presto possible 01:51	buy track
9.	Del Sol String Quartet - Quartet for Strings, "Italian": Lento 09:09	buy track
10.	Del Sol String Quartet - Serenade for String Quartet: Largo 05:36	buy track
11.	Del Sol String Quartet - Serenade for String Quartet: Largo 05:20	buy track
12.	Del Sol String Quartet - Serenade for String Quartet: Largo 05:43	buy track

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Before the premiere of his legendary WPA political musical The Cradle Will Rock, and his opera Regina (based upon Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes), Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) produced striking chamber music that deserves a wider audience. Yet these scores, by the only American to study composition with both Arnold Schoenberg and Nadia Boulanger, remain unpublished and rarely played over the past 80 years. Other Minds is pleased to introduce these forgotten treasures, an unknown aspect of Blitzstein’s genius.

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released May 12, 2009

This recording was made possible thanks to support from: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, The Estate of Marc Blizstein, Michael Tilson Thomas & Joshua Robison, Alvin H. Baum, Jr., in honor of Jim Newson, Victor and Lorraine Honig, Alan Farley

Special thanks to: Christopher & Stephen Davis, Eric Gordon, Howard Pollack, The Estate of David Diamond, The Library of Congress and Elizabeth Auman, The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

Recorded at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California
September 17, 18 and 22, 2008.

Charles Amirkhanian: Executive Producer
Jason O'Connell: Producer, Editing Engineer, Mastering
Marcela Zorro: Recording Engineer
Adam Fong: Associate Producer, Booklet Editor
Wayne Smith: Design

Solo Piano Works: Sarah Cahill
Complete String Quartets: Del Sol String Quartet

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