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CMYK N Playing Scott AXOS Time: 65:29 JOPLIN h copying of this compact disc prohibited. • Made in the EU. reserved. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and All rights in this sound recording, artwork, texts and translations 8.559114 (1868-1917) & g AMERICAN CLASSICS 2004 Naxos Rights International Ltd. 1 3:11 2 : ‘A Slow Drag Two-Step’ 4:30 Although ’s musical 3 Pine Apple Rag 3:42 interests were considerably broader 4 Solace: “A Mexican Serenade” 6:55 than what could be expressed in JOPLIN: Piano Rags SCOTT - he composed two 5 Paragon Rag 3:59 ( is considered by many 6 Pleasant Moments: “Ragtime Waltz” 4:05 to be his masterpiece), a ballet, and 7 3:59 two orchestral works - it as the ‘King 8 Original Rag 4:32 of the Ragtime Writers’, the master of 9 Fig Leaf: ‘A High-class Rag’ 4:34 freely syncopated and extraordinarily 0 : ‘A Ragtime Two-Step’ 4:42 inventive piano rags, that he is best ! 4:12 remembered today. The present disc @ Country Club Rag 3:59 features many favourites, including # The Strenuous Life 5:16 Joplin’s most famous composition, $ : ‘A Concert Waltz’ 7:53 the scintillating Maple Leaf Rag, The Entertainer, which became all the rage in the 1970s thanks to its use in Alexander Peskanov, Piano the motion picture , and the quirky Elite Syncopations. SCOTT JOPLIN: Piano Rags DDD Recorded at the Performing Arts Centre, The Country Day School, King, Ontario, Canada, from 22nd to 24th July, 2002 Booklet notes in English Producers: Bonnie Silver and Norbert Kraft Kommentar auf Deutsch 8.559114 Engineer and Editor: Norbert Kraft

Piano technician: Ted Campbell www.naxos.com 8.559114 Booklet notes: Daniel Felsenfeld Cover picture: Collage of Scott Joplin covers

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