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GM 7387

Amy Beach - Piano Music, Voloume 4, The Late Works

Released Date:
01 Aug 2012

Originally recorded in 2011
Artists:

Kirsten Johnson

piano

Venue:

Wyastone Leys, Monmouthshire, UK

13-14 July 2011

Producer:

John Rushby-Smith



Engineer:

Jonathan Lane



Record Label
Guild

Genre:

Piano




Total Time - 64:22
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AMY BEACH

1 

Nocturne, Op.107

 3:45
2 

Tyrolean Valse-Fantaisie, Op.116

 9:22
3 

The Old Chapel by Moonlight, Op.106

 3:50
4 

A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op.108

 4:16
5 

By The Still Waters, Op.114

 2:58
   
 

From Six to Twelve, Op.119

  
6 No.1 Sliding on the Ice 1:33
7 No.2 The First Mayflowers 1:58
8 No.3 Canoeing 1:13
9 No.4 Secrets of the Attic 1:09
10 No.5 A Camp-fire Ceremonial 3:11
11 No.6 Boy Scouts March 1:26
   
12 

A Bit of Cairo

 2:08
13 

A September Forest

 5:13
   
 

Three Pianoforte Pieces, Op.128

  
14 No.1 Scherzino: A Peterborough Chipmunk 1:17
15 No.2 Young Birches 2:38
16 No.3 A Humming-bird 3:03
   
17 

Out of the Depths, Op.130

 3:03
   
 

Improvisations, Op.148

  
18 No.1 Lento, molto tranquillo 2:35
19 No.2 Allegretto grazioso e capriccioso 1:05
20 No.3 Allegro con delicatezza 1:11
21 No.4 Molto lento e tranquillo 2:18
22 No.5 Largo maestoso 2:50
   
23 

Far Awa'

 2:20
   


Kirsten Johnson has recorded the complete piano music of ‘Boston Six’ composer Amy Beach (1867-1944). This last disc in the series includes all of her final opuses for piano. Old Chapel by Moonlight, From Six to Twelve, A Bit of Cairo, and A September Forest (in manuscript) are all world premiere recordings. Nocturne, which opens the album, is classic Beach, full of rich chords and sonorities with long melodic lines. A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother is hypnotic and soulfully beautiful. Johnson’s technical ability and natural flair for these pieces conveys the chipmunks and hummingbirds of Three Pianoforte Pieces, op. 128, with great élan. Amy Beach: Piano Music, Volume Four, The Late Works is a wonderful culmination of this recording project, a marriage of the pianistic talents of Kirsten Johnson with the compositional greatness of her compatriot Amy Beach.

"...Some of the most pellucid writing can be found in the Five Improvisations. Surely this is a distillation of all that’s gone before. Easeful and inventive, this is music and music-making of joy and contentment. Indeed, as artistic summations go this could hardly be more impressive.Music of striking character and charm, superbly played; a fitting conclusion to this fine cycle."
 
Dan Morgan - MusicWeb-International.com - 14 November 2012


"... Kirsten Johnson’s playing is ... a model of professionalism and tastefulness ... she has an intimate understanding of Beach, and of the milieu in which the composer lived and worked ..."

Raymond S Tuttle - International Record Review - November 2012




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