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Scott Joplin: Piano Rags

Scott Joplin: Piano Rags

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Artist: Joshua Rifkin
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music

List Price: $16.98
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 reviews
Sales Rank: 4339

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4

MPN: 79159
UPC: 075597915921
EAN: 0075597915921
ASIN: B000005IYF

Release Date: October 25, 1990
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Tracks:

  • Maple Leaf Rag
  • The Entertainer -- A Ragtime Two-Step
  • The Ragtime Dance
  • Gladiolus Rag
  • Fig Leaf Rag
  • Scott Joplin's New Rag
  • Euphonic Sounds -- A Syncopated Novelty
  • Elite Syncopations
  • Bethena -- A Concert Waltz
  • Paragon Rag
  • Solace -- A Mexican Serenade
  • Pine Apple Rag
  • Weeping Willow -- A Ragtime Two-Step
  • The Cascades -- A Rag
  • Country Club -- Ragtime Two-step
  • Stoptime Rag
  • Magnetic Rag -- Syncopations Classiques

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Customer Reviews:   Read 36 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars piano riches...   January 6, 2008
After watching "The Sting" in 1973 it was over with.... no, it was just beginning. A foray into the record store was immediately followed by purchasing this album. I now happily own the cd, and Rifkin's playing still sounds fresh even though Joplin wrote it a hundred years ago.


5 out of 5 stars Rifkin's intrpretations are TIMELESS   November 25, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was really surprised to find this recording in CD form. I went through somewhat of a classical music phase back in the '70's ,and i had all three of Rifkin's Scott joplin Albums.
This cd is a compilation of all three albums in one cd,featuring most of Vol. one and hiughligts of Vol.2 and Vol.3 ,but I wish all the works of Joshua Rifkins interpretations were released on CD. I miss his version of Sugar Cane Rag,Leola and Eugenia or The Chrysanthemum
I have my fingers crossed that they'll release a second CD with all those Piano rags that were left off this CD and some new interpretations as well!



5 out of 5 stars Scott Joplin Rags by Joshua Rifkin   August 10, 2007
I bought the original on vinyl 30+ years ago. I loved it so much I bought a half dozen copies for friends and relatives. I wore it out and bought another album a year later. I had occasion to listen to it for the first time in years so bought the CD. What beautiful music!


5 out of 5 stars My favourite jazz music   July 15, 2007
I have had Joshua Rifkin's Scott Joplin Piano Rags for more than 20 years and listened to them very often. Later when I bought SCott Joplin's pianola version I liked it much less. Joplin's music is superb and Rifkin's piano version brings its beauty up where it should be. The reason I bought it on the CD is to put it on my ipod! A marvellous record.


3 out of 5 stars The Flair Just Isn't There   June 15, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Rifkin performs these pieces to perfection- too perfect for my taste. Music (and rags in particular) is not about technical perfection, but that intangible something that resonates within us and moves us. The life, enthusiasm, emotion, soul - whatever you want to call it- just isn't there on this CD. To hear Joplin's great artistry sterilized like this is a real disappointment.

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