Charles Griffes ‒ Roman Sketches. Op 7

Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Roman Sketches, Op.7 (1912-1917)
Performed by Michael Lewin (1999)
00:00 - No. 1 The White Peacock: Languidamente e molto rubato
05:13 - No. 2 Nightfall: Lento misterioso
11:02 - No. 3 The Fountain of the Acqua Paola: Allegro moderato
14:25 - No. 4 Clouds: Tranquillo
The American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes’s piano works represent a remarkable musical achievement. Griffes was active as a composer for little more than twelve years, and did not write prolifically, but nevertheless produced pieces of great maturity which are both concise and extraordinarily powerful, showing the contemporary European influences to which he was exposed but also demonstrating a highly individual compositional voice. His Roman Sketches Op 7 contains his most famous work, ‘The White Peacock’-an acknowledged Impressionist masterpiece-while the final movement, ‘Clouds’, clearly heralds the language of modernism.

[@albertpeckham8708]

This is such an exquisite composition. One can visualize this magnificent bird spreading his plumage! Wow!

[@daveluttinen2547]

What an exquisite piece of music, beautifully played.

[@jongleurette]

Thank you so much for including the score.

[@poemutang2911]

love it for a few years. I must make it😃

[@thomasthompson6378]

I'm sure Charles Tomlinson Griffes never met Maurice Ravel . . . but those two would have had much to say to each other.

[@owengette8089]

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[@BiggWalrus]

numba 2 epic 7:14

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