Lisa Cheryl Thomas - Arthur Farwell: Piano Music, Volume Three

The American composer Arthur Farwell (1872�1952) is best remembered as the leading member of a group of �Indianists� who used Native American tribal melodies in their own compositions. In fact, Farwell�s stylistic range was much wider than is realised today, as this third album in Lisa Thomas� pioneering survey of his piano music demonstrates. It reveals the influence of both Debussy and Skryabin, perhaps even Busoni and, in the two �Navajo War Dances� here, intriguing parallels with Bart�k.