Composer: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Henrique Oswald, Marlos Nobre
Performer: Clélia Iruzun, Coull Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: SOMM
Release: 2020
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach:
Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor Op. 67
01. I. Adagio
02. II. Adagio espressivo
03. III. Allegro agitato
Henrique Oswald:
Piano Quintet
04. I. Allegro moderato
05. II. Scherzo
06. III. Molto adagio
07. IV. Molto allegro
Marlos Nobre:
08. Poema XXI, Op. 94 No. 21
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach:
09. Romance for violin & piano, Op. 23
SOMM Recordings presents Treasures from the New World – a compelling collection of late-Romantic and contemporary works for piano and string quartet from the Americas brimming with all the colour, energy, and emotion of that great continent. Rio de Janeiro-born piano virtuoso Clélia Iruzun teams up with the Coull Quartet for a varied and vital programme championing the music of her Brazilian compatriots Henrique Oswald and Marlos Nobre and the pioneering American Amy Beach. Influenced by Brahms and Schumann, Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor (1908) is stamped through with a lyrically melancholic and pensive signature all its own. For her Romance for Violin and Piano (1893), a work of hypnotic gracefulness and aching emotions, Iruzun partners with the Coull Quartet’s first violinist, Roger Coull. Receiving its first recording outside of Brazil, Henrique Oswald’s Piano Quintet in C major (1895) was composed in Florence. Marlos Nobre’s Poema XXI – here in its premiere recording – carries itself with a distinctive character drawing on traditional South American dances to produce something effusive, elegant and exotic in equal measure. Clélia Iruzun’s previous recordings for SOMM include two volumes of music by Federico Mompou (SOMMCD 0121 and 0155) and Piano Concertos by Albeniz & Mignone (SOMMCD 265) with the RPO and Jac van Steen – nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2019.