Edythe Baker - Piano Roll Artistry of Edythe Baker Release:Piano Roll Artistry of Edythe Baker Folkways Records The four works recorded here

The four works recorded here offer different perspectives on the genre

mesmerizing work for large Thai-style gongs and tam-tam

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Juan Frances de Iribarren Echevarría (1699-1767) received his musical education at the Royal Chapel in Madrid

His Kleine geistliche Konzerte II are also a highly sensitive response to the social conditions of the time

Edythe Baker - Piano Roll Artistry of Edythe Baker Release:Piano Roll Artistry of Edythe Baker Folkways Records The four works recorded hereIn a profession dominated by men, a few women pianists found employment playing and arranging music for piano rolls from 1890 until the 1920s. The women represented on this album were exceptional not just as members of a barely visible minority, but as virtuoso performers, arrangers, and vaudevillians.