559114 rr Joplin EU 14/05/2004 12:26pm Page 1 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 Maple Leaf Rag 3:11 2 Heliotrope Bouquet: ‘A Slow Drag Two-Step’ 4:30 Although Scott Joplin’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 SCOTT JOPLIN: Piano Rags ragtime - he composed two operas 5 Paragon Rag 3:59 (Treemonisha is considered by many 6 Pleasant Moments: “Ragtime Waltz” 4:05 to be his masterpiece), a ballet, and 7 Elite Syncopations 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 The Entertainer: ‘A Ragtime Two-Step’ 4:42 inventive piano rags, that he is best ! The Easy Winners 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, $ Bethena: ‘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 The Sting, 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 sheet music covers AXOS American flag, folk artist, 1880s. N.