Lara Downes - REFLECTIONS: Scott Joplin Reconsidered (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 204 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:54:19
Classical, Ragtime | Label: Rising Sun Records
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 204 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:54:19
Classical, Ragtime | Label: Rising Sun Records
Chart-topping American pianist Lara Downes reflects on the music of Scott Joplin through a 21st-century lens, revealing its many layers of genre-blurring subtlety and nuance. Joplin is revered as The “King of Ragtime". He’s acknowledged as a classically-trained composer of concert music whose ambitions were denied in his own time. He was both of those things, and more - an innovator who merged traditions and histories to make music at the crossroads of the American future. His story is ready to be retold.