[George
Walker: Sonata No. 1 for Piano (1953); Albany Records TROY117 (1994)]
Michael
Bregman manages the YouTube site of Albany Records. He alerts us to
the uploading of a number of videos of the piano repertoire of George Walker (b. 1922) a composer and pianist whose website is
http://georgetwalker.com/,
and who is featured at AfriClassical.com. Here is the first work,
GEORGE WALKER: Sonata No. 1 for Piano (1953). The CD is George
Walker by
Domenico Scarlatti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frederic
Chopin and George Walker
(Audio CD – 1995).
George
Walker, composer and pianist
I Allegro energico
II (@
07:26) Theme and Six Variations
III (@ 12:20) Allegro con
brio
from Albany TROY117
(1994)
“George
Walker was born in Washington, DC on June 27, 1922 of West
Indian-American parentage. He graduated from high school at the age
of 14, attended Oberlin College and the Curtis Institute of Music
where he studied piano with Rudolf Serkin and composition with
Rosario Scalero. His auspicious debut at Town Hall in 1945 was
described in the New York Times as "notable...an authentic
talent of marked individuality and fine musical insight...a rare
combination of elegance and sincerity...an understanding, a technical
competence and a sensitiveness rarely heard at debut recitals."
Walker obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Eastman and
went on to study in France with Nadia Boulanger on Fulbright and John
Hay Whitney Fellowships. His compositions have been played by
virtually every major orchestra and chamber orchestra in the United
States. This recording uniquely showcases the pianist as
composer-composer as pianist as Walker performs his Sonata No. 1.”
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