The Songs Of Charles T. Griffes: Volume 3 is the final volume of the collected vocal works of the American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920). It has been edited by Donna Anderson aforemost expert on his life and works. The 16 songs in this volume allow the interested musician to track Griffes’ compositional style as it changed throughout his career. His early Romantic style is typified byAuf Geheimem Waldespfade which was first published in 1909 but dates from 1903-1907 when he was studying in Berlin. His German influences disappeared around 1912 and he drifted towards French impressionism whileexploring influences from the Far East. The 3 Javanese songs Hampelas Kinanti and Djakoan (c. 1917) were probably the last songs he wrote before his life was cut tragically short by influenza at the age of35. He remains the prominent American composer from the turn of the last century.

The central Piano works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) share with Claude Debussy?s music those distinctive harmonies and rhythms that typify impressionism in the early 20th century. In that period of 1910 to about 1916 the era of Debussy?s ?Sunken Cathedral? and ?Ondine? Griffes composed his evocative ?The Lake at Evening? ?The White Peacock? and ?The Fountain of Acqua Paola.? This highly coloured music free in form and strongly pictorial signalled Griffes? creative break from his student work in Berlin infusing his music with experimental parallel harmonies whole-note scales fluid rhythms poeticreferences and tinges of orientalism typical of the style and its time. This fine collection contains all of the essential works of Griffes? central period: Three Tone-Pictures Op.5 (?The Lake at Evening ? ?The Vale of Dreams ? and ?The Night Winds?); Fantasy Pieces Op.6 (?Barcarolle ? ?Notturno ? and ?Scherzo?); and Roman Sketches Op. 7 (?The White Peacock ? ?Nightfall ? ?The Fountain of the Acqua Paola ? and ?Clouds?). The volume concludes with Griffes? Piano Sonata completed in early 1918 just two years before his premature death. Written at the peak of Griffes? creative power it is one of the composer?s most striking works and a complete break from his earlier style classically structured and uncompromisingly dissonant.

Score-Originally scored for Piano solo (GS48199) Griffes' 'Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan' was later expanded into a tone poem for orchestra by the American impressionistic composer. It is based on the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge andis scored for Piano Voice Chamber Ensemble and orchestra. This original version is combined with Frederic Stocks' 1920 revisions.

A collection of 8 songs for Medium Voice and Piano including 'The First Snowfall' 'Phantoms' and 'An Old Song Re-Sung'.

Version for Flute and Piano. This edition was prepared by Georges Barrere who premiered this little known but gem of a work to great acclaim in New York in 1919.