“They have to be heard to be believed,” said the Washington Post of piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton. The twin sisters pay tribute to their homeland with the album American Postcard. It offers music by four US composers: John Adams (his Roll Over Beethoven, a work the Naughtons premiered in 2016), Aaron Copland, Conlan Nancarrow and Paul Schoenfield. As the sisters explain, “These pieces show the diversity and variety of American music. But one thing that ties them together is an exuberance that, to us, feels deeply American.”
Tracklist:
1. Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
2. Schoenfield: Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive: I. Metamorphoses on “I’m crazy ’bout my Baby”
3. Schoenfield: Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive: II. Labyrinth
4. Schoenfield: Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive: III. Elegy
5. Schoenfield: Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive: IV. From a Bintel Brief
6. Schoenfield: Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive: V. Boogie
7. Nancarrow / Arr. Mikhashoff: Sonatina: I. Presto
8. Nancarrow / Arr. Mikhashoff: Sonatina: II. Moderato – Più allegro
9. Nancarrow / Arr. Mikhashoff: Sonatina: III. Allegro molto
10. Copland / Arr. Bernstein: El salon Mexico
11. Adams / Arr. Antonsen: Roll Over Beethoven: I. Allegro molto
12. Adams / Arr. Antonsen: Roll Over Beethoven
13. Copland / Arr. Lerner: Variations on a Shaker Melody
Personnel:
Christina Naughton, piano
Michelle Naughton, piano
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