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The World of Scott Joplin, Vol. 1
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Track Listing
- Reflection Rag-Syncopated Musings
- Frog Legs Rag
- Palm Leaf Rag [A Slow Drag]
- Kinklets [Two Step]
- Breeze from Alabama
- Golden Hours
- Ragtime Oriole
- Search-Light Rag
- Pippin Rag
- Topliner Rag
- One for Amelia
- Broadway Rag [A Classic]
- Chrysanthemum [An Afro-American Intermezzo]
- Maple Leaf Rag
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #184844 in Music
- Released on: 1991-11-27
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .20 pounds
Customer Reviews
Good, But Not the Best
First, let me say that Max Morath is an excellent piano player and interpreter of Joplin, even though I personally prefer Joshua Rifkin. He plays well on this CD. However, I was disappointed that only 6 of the 14 tracks are Joplin compositions. The others are mostly by contemporaries of Joplin, and even though they are not bad, they are nowhere near the quality of Joplin's work. Nevertheless, this is a fine CD to own. If you are looking for a more comprehensive collection of Scott Joplin's piano rags or a more serious interpretation of them, I suggest "Scott Joplin Piano Rags" played by Joshua Rifkin and available on Amazon.
Definitive Ragtime
I grew up listening to a cassette with this album on one side, and the soundtrack to "The Sting" on the other side. To me this is definitive ragtime. Later on we got a Joshua Ripkin CD, but I never liked it as much as this one.
It's not all Joplin
If you only want one ragtime collection, then you need a Joplin-only CD. This is not it. But Morath's "The World of Scott Joplin" is unique and wonderful. In addition to a nice selection of Joplin, he brings the music of Joplin's most important contemporaries (other than Chauvin) back to life. If Joplin is the Shakespeare of ragtime, Morath reminds us that there was also a Marlowe and a Jonson.
He also manages to sneak in two of his own pieces, which might seem like cheating, but they are refreshingly modern ragtime pieces and worth learning in their own right. The sheet music for those appears in Rudi Blesh's "They All Played Ragtime," which, incidentally, makes a pretty clear argument that you need more than a Joplin-only collection to really appreciate ragtime.
