Pirouette

Track Listings

1. Pirouette (Bach: Minuet in G)

2. Prelude for an Angel (Bach: Prelude in C)

3. Beethoven in Love (Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata)

4. Only the Moon (Debussy: Clair de Lune)

5. Elise Steps Out (Beethoven: Fur Elise)

6. Spring Fling (Spring, from Vivaldis The Four Seasons)

7. Simple Joys (Bach: Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring)

8. The Syncopated Clock (by Leroy Anderson)

9. Satie at Sunset (Satie: #1 of Les Trois Gymdopedies)

10. Echoes of Spain (Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez)

11. Falling in Love (Martini: Placier dAmour)

12. Dancing in the Air (Chopin: Prelude in C Minor)

13. Jump for Joy (Beethoven: Ode to Joy)

14. Sweet Dreams (Brahms: Lullaby)

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
A lifetime of musical study is reflected in Sallys playing. The piano came naturally as she amazed her family, playing songs by ear at age three. At age four, her classical training began. She also improvised, composed, and played everything she heard and liked. At twenty three, she earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance, having studied with world renowned teacher and concert pianist, Stewart Gordon.

Ms. Harmon plays concerts in the United States, Canada and abroad, as her music is sold throughout the world. She has been seen on numerous television appearances, including a David Frost special in Los Angeles where she performed her original piece, Sunset Over LA. It was was aired worldwide during the Los Angeles Olympics. Her music has prompted complimentary letters from two U.S. presidents and she has performed for the King and Queen of Sweden. She recently premiered a new Stienway concert grand piano in Washington DC at DAR Constitution Hall next to the White House for a crowd of 4,000.

Product Description
A Spin on the Classics Piano Orchestrations

Roll over, Beethoven! In fact, the whole gang can. Sally's here! Sally Harmon has picked some of the most popular classical themes of all time and given them a new attitude. Opening with "Pirouette," an elegant waltz treatment of Bach's Minuet in G, with violin and penny whistle, she then adds angelic voices to Bach's Prelude in C in "Prelude for an Angel". After that, you're spun into new directions with her jazzy, fun-filled version of Fr Elise. Then, onto a moon-lit beach with her "Girl from Ipanema style Clair de Lune Only the Moon.

Vivaldi's "Spring " from The Four Seasons becomes "Spring Fling," a country dance full of witty surprises, and Beethoven's Ode to Joy turns gospel, with added sax, bass and drums, earning the title, "Jump for Joy." She closes by caressing you with Sweet Dreams, her version of Brahms' Lullaby.

Pirouette,Sally Harmon,Soulo Records,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Popular Music

Pirouette

Tracks:

Temperamental Rag
Pink Slippers Valse
Preparedness March
Il Pentimento Waltz
Royal Flying Corps March
Kismet Fox Trot
Orazione e Marcia Militare
Western Stars March
Moonlight Waltz
Hand Grenade Throwers March
Deiro Rag
Muskateers March
Deirina Mazurka
I Don't Care Polka
Lido Tango
Queen of the Air march
Valse Caprice No. 1
Neapolitan Polka
My Florence Waltz
Egypto Fantasia
Zampa Rag
Lola Fox Trot
Breitenbush March
Tango Tosino
Guido's Royal March
Light & Shadow Waltz
Variety Polka
Valse Pirouette
Marines March
Dolores Waltz
Los Bomberos March
Accordionette Waltz
Young Accordionist March
Little Accordion Player Waltz
Torpedo March
Beautiful Girl Waltz
The Peasant Quadrille
Radio Waltz
Dimples Polka
The Accordion Girl Waltz
Sharpshooters March
Veno (Duet) Fox Trot
Jewel Waltz (Duet)
King Boy (Duet) Fox Trot
Minneapolis March (Duet)
California Mazurka (Duet)
Sharpshooters March (Reprise)

Album Description

Guido Deiro, the Italian-American accordion virtuoso-- frequently called "The Great Deiro"-- was of paramount importance in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century. The first accordionist to perform on the Vaudeville stage (1910), he was also the first accordionist to make sound recordings (Edison Wax Cylinders, 1911). For many years Deiro was a headline attraction at the great vaudeville houses throughout America and abroad, and made more than 100 recordings for the Columbia record company. On Bridge's 2-CD set, Henry Doktorski's sparkling performances of Deiro's music quickly confirm the reason for Deiro's immense popularity. In 1913, Deiro met the young vaudeville performer, and later-to-be Hollywood starlette, Mae West, while both were performing on a vaudeville show in Detroit. The couple quickly fell in love and secretly married. Henry Doktorski's liner notes detail Deiro and West's torrid love affair, and early photograph's of Deiro, provided by Deiro's son, Count Guido Deiro Jr., add to the significance of this release. Deiro's delightful compositions are a window onto an era long past, much like the re-discovery of Scott Joplin's music, twenty-five years ago.

Customer Reviews:

Accordion as you have never heard it!.......2007-04-03

Guido Deiro was the first virtuoso of this much maligned and very difficult to play instrument. An accomplished composer and recording star, Deiro was a hughely popular in Vaudeville. The liner notes reveal his marriage to Mae West and I enjoyed the vintage photos. Henry Doktorski plays Deiro's compositions with great technique and every piece is a revelation of what the accordion is really capable of when played by a master musician.

Excellent Album.......2005-01-04

This two CD set is certainly worth the money. Henry Doktorski's performance is indeed breathtaking. It is as if someone were transported back to the days when Guido Deiro himself was performing these songs. Guido Deiro was a recording pioneer who he became the first star piano-accordionist, the first piano-accordionist to perform on the vaudeville stage, and to make sound recordings(I've got at least two of Mr. Deiro's old Columbia 78 RPM records at home). In fact, Guido became the first person to coin the phrase "Piano-accordion." You'll find plenty of good stuff about Guido in Mr. Doktorski's liner notes on the two-CD set as well as on the GuidoDeiro.com website. Mr. Doktorski's sparkling performance certainly does Mr. Deiro's songs justice.

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Pirouette
Sally Harmon
Manufacturer: Soulo Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-08-10

Tracks:

Pirouette (Bach: Minuet in G)
Prelude for an Angel (Bach: Prelude in C)
Beethoven in Love (Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata)
Only the Moon (Debussy: Clair de Lune)
Elise Steps Out (Beethoven: Fur Elise)
Spring Fling (Spring, from Vivaldis The Four Seasons)
Simple Joys (Bach: Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring)
The Syncopated Clock (by Leroy Anderson)
Satie at Sunset (Satie: #1 of Les Trois Gymdopedies)
Echoes of Spain (Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez)
Falling in Love (Martini: Placier dAmour)
Dancing in the Air (Chopin: Prelude in C Minor)
Jump for Joy (Beethoven: Ode to Joy)
Sweet Dreams (Brahms: Lullaby)

Album Description

A Spin on the Classics Piano Orchestrations

If you're looking for something new, fresh, witty, and stunningly beautiful, give Pirouette a whirl. With a new level of polish and flair for Sally Harmon, this spin on the classics is sure to delight classical and non-classical listeners alike.

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Pirouette

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FTKNTY
Release Date: 2006-01-24

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Pirouette

Manufacturer: Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00020V8RC