Joplin: Magnetic Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1970 - Nonesuch H-71248 (Remastered)

[@davidhertzberg]

More remastered Joplin with score: Stoptime Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71305 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ani0p4hqrqxoh80 Paragon Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1972 - Nonesuch H-71264 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZelnI2qZ5xmZ5Y Magnetic Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1970 - Nonesuch H-71248 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5PCoqCcZrZ1rtU Original Rags - Joshua Rifkin, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71305 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZDZiYJpf8ajd7s Elite Syncopations - Joshua Rifkin, 1972 - Nonesuch H-71264 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5aTYXeIjd6jaJo Ragtime Dance - Joshua Rifkin, 1970 - Nonesuch H-71248 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpmunGapftymnLc Sugar Cane Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71305 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5bEknSHipWipbM Maple Leaf Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1970 - Nonesuch H-71248 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2KTnGyHfs-Hi5Y Weeping Willow - Joshua Rifkin, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71305 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/boumg6OabNaMlck The Cascades - Joshua Rifkin, 1974 - Nonesuch H-71305 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYLUfJuult2fn8k Pineapple Rag - Joshua Rifkin, 1972 - Nonesuch H-71264 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5XXq6OAqsuBf7c Solace - A Mexican Serenade - Joshua Rifkin, 1972 - Nonesuch H-71264 (Remastered) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpjThpSmorSAi9E

[@mmbmbmbmb]

Can anyone not get delighted by these tunes ? I cannot help but listen with a broad smile . . . thanks !

[@timward276]

Finest of all the Joplin rags, in my opinion, and absolutely delightful to play. Every bit as good as, say, a Chopin Nocturne or a Brahms Intermezzo.

[@davidhertzberg]

I agree fully. Same juxtaposition applies, for example, to Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb on the one hand to Franz Schubert on the other.

[@Tsipiano.]

Wow... this is really magnetic !

[@rfdarsie]

I love when Joplin goes minor. He didn't do it often enough.

[@jsizemo]

Has anyone else familiar with this rag ever notice a portion of this melody sounds like the chorus of Simon and Garfunkel's "Feeling Groovy"? In this recording, at around 0:22, it coincides with the verse "Slow down, you're moving too fast, got to make the morning last"

[@mikeggg5671]

Other way around my friend. Simon and Garfunkel's music sounds like this! Scott Joplin predates Simon & Garfunkel by 50 years

[@jsizemo]

@@mikeggg5671 Technically you are correct, but because the culture still has the large stamp of the baby boomers, the person on the street is likely to recognize the Magnetic Rag when they are presented with it, and more likely to know the 59 Street Bridge

[@Dylonely_9274]

One of the best rags !

[@СтепанПрошин-и7ю]

That's me at midnight doing my homework on mathematic analysis

[@claudecat]

The Rifkin recordings are the first way I heard Joplin, so for me they're sort of the baseline. There are better versions of many Joplin pieces, but you won't find a more consistent and logical set of Joplin works than these old Nonesuch albums. They just sound alive somehow (it's the touch of reverb, perhaps natural).

[@OmniversalInsect]

They're too slow for my liking.