A Private Recital Andrew Rangell

• Toby Tenenbaum (b. 1956):
• 1 Tenenbaum: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor (In the Style of Dominico Scarlatti) 03:50
• 2 Tenenbaum: Piano Sonata No. 4 in A Major (In the Style of Dominico Scarlatti) 03:07
• 3 Tenenbaum: Piano Sonata No. 3 in E Major (In the Style of Dominico Scarlatti) 02:16
• 4 Tenenbaum: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor (In the Style of Dominico Scarlatti) [Alternate Take] 07:31
• Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972):
• 5 Wolpe: Pastorale for Piano 02:38
• 6 Wolpe: Lied, Anrede, Hymnus, Strophe zarteste Bewegung, C. 81b 01:25
• 7 Wolpe: Vocalise for Piano 02:19
• 8 Wolpe: Palestinian Notebook (Excerpts): No. 3, Lullaby 02:11
• 9 Wolpe: Palestinian Notebook (Excerpts): No. 2, Yiddish Wedding 02:13
• Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915):
• 10 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 53 12:37
• Jan Swafford (b. 1946):
• 11 Swafford: Andante amoroso 03:02
• Total Runtime 43:09

Info for A Private Recital

Pianist Andrew Rangell releases a new album that includes contemporary sonatas which brilliantly inhabit the style of Domenico Scarlatti, intimate selections by Stefan Wolpe, and Scriabin’s virtuosic Fifth Sonata. Finally, a warmly sonorous birthday gift by Jan Swafford.

Rangell relects on the album: "This modest program, something of a departure from my other recordings, has come into being not by design, but by chance. The Wolpe and Scriabin pieces were recently (11/2021) recorded. The others were recorded, separately, some years earlier, not for commercial release but as a private gift, so to say, for the composers, both long-time friends. It will be noted that the Wolpe pieces (excepting the rambunctious wedding dance) share an extremely intimate and private quality. Standing out from its surroundings is the ever-astonishing Scriabin Fifth Sonata, a masterpiece of compositional ingenuity and groundbreaking pianistic virtuosity.

“Rangell’s approach to the music is deeply personal, individual but never eccentric, sensitive to all the music’s highly varied needs, technically precise and artistically polished.” (Washington Post)

“As always, Rangell’s playing is an utter joy, and the program is very insightfully chosen.” (CD Hotlist)

Andrew Rangell, piano

Andrew Rangell
Long recognized as among the most eloquent and insightful interpreters of the major keyboard works of Bach and Beethoven, pianist Andrew Rangell has drawn acclaim for a variety of recordings, ranging from the music of Sweelinck, Farnaby, and Gibbons to that of Janacek, Enescu, Nielsen, Bartok, Valen, Christian Wolff, and many others. The present recording (Mr. Rangell's 30th disc) can be considered a counterpart, and complement, to his 2009 Bridge recording of Ives' First Piano Sonata, Nielsen's Op.45 Suite, and John McDonald's Meditation Before a Sonata (2003), a beautiful homage to Ives' Concord.

Andrew Rangell made his New York debut as winner of the Malraux Award of the Concert Artists’ Guild, and has since performed and lectured throughout the United States, and in Europe and Israel. He has also taught on the faculties of Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Tufts University. In the 1980s, already recognized as a distinctive recitalist and collaborative artist, Mr. Rangell gained national attention – and the award of an Avery Fisher Career Grant – for his vivid traversals of the complete Beethoven sonata-cycle in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Rochester, Denver, and other U.S. Cities. A hand injury sustained in 1991 forced Mr. Rangell to gradually alter the trajectory of his career, and eventually to place his highest priority on recording. In recent years he has created several DVDs for children – integrating his special talents as author, illustrator, narrator, and pianist.

This album contains no booklet.