Donald Satz <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>I've had little exposure to the music of Conlon Nancarrow and would
>like to change that. I have two questions: how would you categorize
>his music, and what recordings would be a good starting point?
The short answer: he wrote incredibly rhythmically complex music for
player piano.
His style changed over his career, but it's all pretty accessible, in my
opinion. The early stuff makes a lot of harmonic sense, and later on he
started doing canons, so you can follow individual lines.
>I'm aware of an RCA disc devoted to Nancarrow and some Wergo discs of
>studies for player piano performed by Nancarrow.
The Wergo discs are his life's output, pretty much. The place to start is
the first two-disc set. Two Wergo CD's is a lot of money, but this is
amazing music.
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