AllMusic has a new review from James Manheim for Christopher Atzinger’s recording of The Piano Music of John Knowles Paine:
“Christopher Atzinger effectively teases out the distinctive features. As a composer of piano music, Paine is at his best when he is humorous and homey. There aren’t really characteristically American features of his music; that would come with the following generation. But one piece, the “Fuga Giocosa” from the Three Piano Pieces, Op. 41, quotes an American baseball song (now itself little known), in a delightful meeting of academic and vernacular. Some of Paine’s pieces sound like accomplished student pieces, but A Funeral March in Memory of President Lincoln, Op. 9, and several others have the mark of true feeling. In general, there is ambition here rather than the mark of the salon. Recommended for those interested in early American classical music.”
—James Manheim, AllMusic.com
See the full review on AllMusic.com
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