CONNECTING CULTURES (Deborah Moriarty & Zhihua Tang)
Holding hands across the ocean – works for piano four hands illustrating music, cultural and generational diversity. Pianists Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua Tang express a renewed faith in the promise of cultures coming together, through music, to move toward a future built on common ground.
Including music from a wide variety of cultures and promotes female and minority composers alongside composers whose works have become standards in the repertoire.
Antonín Leopold Dvořák
1. Slavonic Dance, Op 46. No. 8 4:36
2. Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 No. 2 4:49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Andante and Five Variations in G major, K. 501 8:03
Wang Jianzhong
4. Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon 3:20
Gong Huahua
5. Mountain Harvest 649
Manuel de Falla
Two Spanish Dances from “La Vida Breve”
6. Spanish Dance No. 1 3:38
7. Spanish Dance No. 2 4:45
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Summer Dreams, Op. 47
8. The Brownies 3:46
9. Robin Redbreast 1:42
10. Twilight 1:45
11. Katy-dids 1:11
12. Elfin Tarantelle 1:52
13. Good Night 2:59
Florence Beatrice Price
Three Negro Spirituals
14. I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray 1:53
15. Lord I Want to Be a Christian 4:03
16. Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit 1:32
George Gershwin
17. Rhapsody in Blue (arranged by Henry Levine) 17:31
