Scott Joplin: The Complete Rags, Marches, Waltzes & Songs

Scott Joplin: The Complete Rags, Marches, Waltzes & Songs

ASIN: B0001Z4PHS

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Original Rags

2. Great Crush Collision

3. Harmony Club Waltz

4. Combination March

5. Maple Leaf Rag

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Cascades

2. Palm Leaf Rag

3. Favorite

4. Sycamore

5. Chrysanthemum

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Solace

2. Heliotrope Bouquet

3. Sugar Cane

4. Fig Leaf Rag

5. Pine Apple Rag

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Please Say You Will

2. Picture of Her Face

3. I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days

4. Ragtime Dance

5. Little Black Baby

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
New York Sun
"As played by Mr. Nielsen...Scott Joplin's music is beautiful and moving..."

Product Description
Guido Nielsen's third ragtime CD features all of the great ragtime composer Scott Joplin's rags, marches, waltzes and songs on four discs! Stunning cover design by Chris Ware, it is bundled with two booklets and excellent liner notes

Tracks:

Original Rags
Great Crush Collision March
Harmony Club Waltz
Combination March
Maple Leaf Rag
Swipesy Cake Walk
Sunflower Slow Drag
Augustan Club Waltz(es)
Peacherine Rag
Easy Winners
Cleopha
Strenuous Life
Breeze from Alabama
Elite Syncopations
Entertainer
March Majestic
Something Doing
Weeping Willow

Tracks:

Cascades
Palm Leaf Rag
Favorite
Sycamore
Chrysanthemum
Bethena
Rose-Bud March
Leola
Bink's Waltz
Eugenia
Antoinette
Rag-Time Dance
Nonpareil
Search-Light Rag
Gladiolus Rag
Lily Queen
Rose Leaf Rag

Tracks:

Solace
Heliotrope Bouquet
Sugar Cane
Fig Leaf Rag
Pine Apple Rag
Wall Street Rag
Country Club
Pleasant Moments
Euphonic Sounds
Paragon Rag
Stoptime Rag
Felicity Rag
Scott Joplin's New Rag
Kismet Rag
Magnetic Rag
Silver Swan Rag
Reflection Rag

Tracks:

Please Say You Will
Picture of Her Face
I Am Thinking of My Pickaninny Days
Ragtime Dance
Little Black Baby
Maple Leaf Rag
Sarah Dear
Good-Bye Old Gal Good-Bye
Snoring Sampson
When Your Hair Is Like the Snow
Pineapple Rag
Lovin' Babe
Unknown Song Fragment

Album Description

Guido Nielsen's third ragtime CD features all of the great ragtime composer Scott Joplin's rags, marches, waltzes and songs on four discs! Stunning cover design by Chris Ware, it is bundled with two booklets and excellent liner notes

Customer Reviews:

excellent.......2005-05-19

i saw people writing her that mr nielsen doesnt has the feeling or doesnt play as max morath... well then i see buy the sheet music and look what is written... mr nielsen exactly plays what is written.. except in the ragtime dance and stoptime rag where he dont use stop time....

i can hear in his playing that he is a very talented and gifted piano player who earned his 9,5 on his exam on the conservatory in Utrecht.

if i listen to max morath or joshua rifkin i hear to slow music with out expression, ok mr nielsen plays some pieces to fast... way to fast like peacherine rag.. the sheet music says "not fast" not "not too fast" or march tempo mr nielsen plays it more presto. and some more pieces are like this but overall he plays in a very good talend style.

if you want to chose between nielsen, morath, arpin or rifkin... i say nielsen.

Treasure the liner notes, beware the CDs.......2005-03-19

I hate to say that Nielsen's playing is, while precise and clean, almost strangely unexpressive and unnuanced. He lacks a feel for the certain "catch" in syncopated rhythm that makes players like Max Morath and Dick Hyman such a joy to listen to. His versions are basically demonstrations of what is on the page played by a thoroughly competent pianist who nevertheless does not really "feel" this music, rather as if it were 1904 and he was a pianist at a music store on hand to play through anything you asked for so you could hear how it sounded.

To rip through SUGAR CANE as if it were CAROLINA SHOUT, for example, is to miss what Joplin meant with this piece. And overall, Nielsen seems to render what should be crisp staccato closing notes for phrases as full ones, which especially blunts the snap of stop-time sections in pieces like THE RAGTIME DANCE. Nielsen plays the same way on his Scott and Lamb recordings -- all of these sets are of reference value only.

But Galen Wilkes and Edward Berlin's liner notes are some of the best ever written anywhere for any recording. The text is scholarly in its richness of information, the photographs are invaluable, and Chris Ware's artwork is splendid. This set is worth it for the liner notes alone, including penetrating capsule treatments of each and every piece Joplin wrote and new news on his life and work from research over the past several years. I consider myself to have basically spent the money on a great BOOK, with accompanying CDs as a kind of demonstration bonus.

Guido Nielsen plays Scott Joplin Complete Works.......2004-12-25

I've always liked Ragtime music, usually heard only as brief movie background sound clips. That all changed around 1973 when I saw the blockbuster movie, The Sting, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. All the movie's music was Scott Joplin Ragtime Music played by Marvin Hamlisch.

I became then, and still am, a Ragtime Music devotee. For me, Ragtime can be uplifting, joyful, satisfying, and just fun to listen to. It may help fight Depression. I bought the Dover Publication Book of Joplin's Piano Music. And I learned to play a number of the best known pieces: The Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag, Cascades, Sugar Cane, Elite Syncopations, and others. I don't claim to be anything other than a serious amateur, playing for my own enjoyment, and for house guests.

The movie soundtrack from The Sting, made Joplin's music widely known, and temporarily popular. Pianist Joshua Rifkin recorded three LP 33 1/3 records under the Nonesuch label of Joplin's music. Each of the CD's had 8 tracks totaling about 30 minutes of music. Sadly, these LP's and the corresponding CD's are out of print - no longer available. However, Nonesuch released a Joplin CD 7559-79159-2, with pianist Rifkin, 17 tracks, total time 71:15. This CD is currently available.

I bought Guido Nielsen's recordings of the Ragtime Piano Music of Joseph Lamb, and James Scott. I greatly enjoy these recordings. I obtained the sheet music for a number of the songs that I liked and I've had some success in actually playing the music. Nielsen is certainly a superb pianist.

To finally "get to the point" of all this. I bought the Joplin set of 4 CD's, performed by Nielsen, and I'm disappointed. It seems that Nielsen plays much of the music as if it's a "chore." I don't hear passion, enthusiasm, vitality. Perhaps he simply doesn't like Joplin's music. I'm sorry that I bought the set.

With all due respect to marvelous pianist Nielsen, I challenge anyone who takes issue with my comments to listen, really LISTEN, to Joplin's music as performed by Marvin Hamlisch and Joshua Rifkin. Then listen to Nielsen's recordings and form your own opinion.

Scott Joplin recordings obliterated by Dutch pianist.......2004-05-17

THE ultimate Scott Joplin performances! Forget about the rest: clear, correct AND very musically played rags, marches, songs and waltzes. They're miked very close (like the Lamb and Scott recordings by the same pianist on the same label), which makes even Mr. Nielsen's (sober but efficiënt) pedalings audible. This is the standard, people, by all means!

The King of Ragtime Recordings.......2004-05-13

Wow! The only words that can truly describe this set are exclamations. Mr. Guido Nielsen has done it again. The music is played as written, in a style that is accurate, fresh, and lively. The performances are excellent, although classics like 'Gladiolus Rag' and 'Magnetic Rag' could be played somewhat slower. The cover design is exquisite and the discs themselves are simply beautiful. The two 24-page booklets are crammed with color and black-and-white photographs, not to mention notes of the highest quality. Be sure to read the entertaining advertisements on the last page of the second booklet. I highly recommend this set to anyone interested in ragtime and the music of Scott Joplin. Purchase this set as soon as possible, and if you have not done so already, pick up the Joseph Lamb and James Scott sets produced by the same team. Happy listening!

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