America Again

Pianisten Lara Downes drømmende rejse gennem den amerikanske historie beskrevet med kompositioner fra jazz, folk og klassisk musik.

Indhold:

1) American Caprice

Morton Gould, Lara Downes

2) New York Waltzez. I, Waltz in C

Lou Harrison, Lara Downes

3) New York Waltzes. II, Hesitation Waltz

Lou Harrison, Lara Downes

4) New York Waltzes, III, Waltz in A

Lou Harrison, Lara Downes

5) Shenandoah (arr. for piano)

Anonymous, Lara Downes

6) From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83

Amy Beach, Lara Downes

7) 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59, No. 10. Deep River

Samuel Coleridge, Lara Downes

8) Lonesome Roads: Nocturne

Dan Visconti, Lara Downes

9) Poems of the Sea. III. At Sea: Allegro vivo (version for piano)

Ernest Bloch, Lara Downes

10) Porgy and Bess, Act II: I Loves You, Porgy (arr. N. Simone for piano.)

George Gerswin, Nina Simone, Lara Downes

11) Sueno Recurrente

Angélica Negrón, Lara Downes

12) 13 Anniversaries: No 3. For Stephen Sondheim

Leonard Bernstein, Lara Downes

13) Promise

David Sanford, Lara Downes

14) Slumber Song

Howard Hanson

15) Gladiolus Rag

Scott Joplin, Lara Downes

16) The Jazz Singer: Blue Skies. (Arr. A. Tatum for piano)

Art Tatum, Irving Berlin, Lara Downes

17) Fantasie Negre

Florence Beatrice Price, Lara Downes

18) Blues No. 1 (Sentimental Melody : Slow Dance)

Aaron Copland, Lara Downes

19) Melancholia

Duke Ellington, Lara Downes

20) Li'l boy named David

Roy Harris, Lara Downes

21) The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow (arr. for piano)

Anonymous, Harold Arlen, Lara Downes