Artur Balsam plays MacDowell – Woodland Sketches (selection, 1952)

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) From Woodland Sketches Opus 51 0:00 No. 1, "To a Wild Rose" — A major ("With simple tenderness") 1:34 No. 2, "Will o' the Wisp" — F-sharp minor ("Swift and light; fancifully") 2:59 No. 4, "In Autumn" — F-sharp minor ("Buoyantly, almost exuberantly") 4:32 No. 5, "From an Indian Lodge" — C minor ("Sternly, with great emphasis") 6:50 No. 6, "To a Water-lily" — F-sharp major ("In dreamy, awaying rhythm") 9:24 No. 9, "By a Meadow Brook" — A-flat major ("Gracefully, merrily") 10:25 No. 10, "Told at Sunset" — F minor ("With Pathos") Artur Balsam (1906-1994), piano Recorded in 1952