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American Ballads

Lara Downes

1 Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 1. Un poco allegro 2:56

2 Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 2. In Slow Blues Tempo 3:38

3 Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 3. Allegretto 2:58

4 Samuel Barber's Excursions, Opus 20: 4. Allegro molto 2:16

5 Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 1. Freely Poetic (For Leo Smit) 2:31

6 Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 2. Soft and Languid (For Andor Foldes) 2:30

7 Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 3. Muted and Sensuous (For William Kapell) 2:17

8 Aaron Copeland's Four Piano Blues: 4. With Bounce (For John Kirkpatrick) 1:05

9 Benny Golson's On Gossamer Wings 10:25

10 Roy Harris's American Ballads: 1. Streets of Laredo 1:44

11 Roy Harris's American Ballads: 2. Wayfaring Stranger 1:36

12 Roy Harris's American Ballads: 3. The Bird 1:33

13 Roy Harris's American Ballads: 4. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 1:08

14 Roy Harris's American Ballads: 5. Cod Liver Ile 2:19

15 Rzewski's North American Ballads: 3. Down by the Riverside 5:58

16 Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": 3. The Alcotts 5:35

17 Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 1. Prelude 0:54

18 Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 2. Cowboy Songs (Houlihan, Laredo, and Git Along, Litle Doggies) 1:44

19 Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 3. Blues 3:25

20 Virgil Thomson's Suite from The Plow That Broke the Plains: 4. Finale (We're Goin' to Leave Ol' Texas Now) 2:41

21 Dana Suesse's American Nocturne 3:48

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