A child prodigy pianist who was touring Europe as a virtuoso concert soloist while still a teenager, Louis Moreau Gottschalk provides one of the most colorful chapters in the history of American music. Dubbed ‘the Chopin of the Creoles’, he was, above all, the first to capture the syncopated music of South Louisiana and the Caribbean in enduring works that anticipate ragtime and jazz by half a century. His orchestral works show a composer of considerable skill who could create memorable and catchy tunes. Included in this disc of the complete surviving orchestral music are several works recorded for the first time in the composer’s original version, as well as the world première recording of La Casa del Joven Enrique.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Symphonie No. 2, "A Montevideo", RO 257

Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


I. Andante 00:02:30
II. Presto - Maestoso 00:08:43
Grande Tarentelle, Op. 67, RO 259

Gurt, Michael, piano
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


Grande Tarentelle, Op. 67, RO 259 00:06:07
Escenas campestres cubanas, RO 77

Noggle, Anna, soprano
Taylor, Darryl, tenor
Ziebarth, Richard, bass-baritone
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


I. Tempo de danza: Moderato 00:02:27
II. Piu lento 00:08:01
III. Danza 00:01:37
IV. Tempo de danza: Moderato 00:01:18
Variations de concert sur l'hymne portugais du Roi Louis I, Op. 91, RO 289

Gurt, Michael, piano
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


Variations de concert sur l'hymne portugais du Roi Louis I, Op. 91 00:12:32
Ave Maria, RO 10 (arr. R. Rosenberg for voice and orchestra)

Barrick, Melissa, soprano
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


Ave Maria, RO 10 (arr. R. Rosenberg for voice and orchestra) 00:05:56
La Chasse du jeune Henri: Overture (arr. Gottschalk for 3 pianos, 10-hands, orchestra, RO 54b)

Contiguglia, John, piano
Contiguglia, Richard, piano
Draghicescu, Angela, piano
Lin, Chin-Ming, piano
Pepper, Joshua, piano
Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


La Chasse du jeune Henri: Overture (arr. Gottschalk for 3 pianos, 10 - hands, orchestra, RO 54b) 00:11:07
Symphonie romantique, RO 255, "La nuit des tropiques" (A Night in the Tropics), "Symphony No. 1"

Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Rosenberg, Richard, Conductor


I. Noche en los Tropicos (A Night in the Tropics) 00:10:09
II. Festa Criolla 00:06:05



Total Playing Time: 01:16:32