Popularly known outside of the United States frontiers thanks to Marvin Hamlisch's arrangements of his rags in The Sting (1973) -happy winner on that year's Academy Award for Best Adapted Score-, Scott Joplin was something more than a musician in the frontier between the popular and the classic, and some of his works so interesting and curious as the opera Treemonisha (1911) deserve a bigger attention than received until the moment. To it collaborates the composer, pianist and arranger Marcus Roberts in the present disk, recovering a series of Joplin's essential pieces, and integrating them with some of his own so that the jump between the past and the present is almost transparent. A very interesting disk for a very interesting music.

SONY CLASSICAL SK60554 / 58'

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