JOPLIN – WALTZES 5 ORIGINAL PIECES FOR PIANO

Anyone who hears the name of Scott Joplin immediately thinks of the ragtime which is inseparably connected with this composer particularly since the film The Sting has triggered a real renaissance of this musical style. The fact that the American rag master also wrote compositions for other genres – he actually left a veritable opera – is hardly known. The present volume unites the five original piano waltzes written by Joplin: Whether ‘Binks Waltz’ ‘Concert Waltz Bethena’ or ‘Harmony Club Waltz’ whether ‘The Augustan Club Waltz’ or ‘Ragtime Waltz Pleasant Moments’ – these technically not too difficult piano settings guarantee joyful moments of music-making. And they evoke the atmosphere of the North American clubs cafs and salons around 1900.