American Quintets: Amy Beach, Florence Price & Samuel Barber
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN20224
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Contents
Artists
Kaleidoscope Chamber CollectiveWorks
Dover Beach, op.3Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, op.67
Piano Quintet in A minor
Artists
Kaleidoscope Chamber CollectiveAbout
The Piano Quintet is one of Amy Beach’s better-known works, which the KCC collectively fell in love with during a residency at the Cheltenham festival. Composed in 1907, the work reflects the strong influence of the music of Brahms.
Florence Price famously claimed to face ‘two handicaps – those of sex and race’, and much of her music remained unpublished at the time of her death. Additionally, a significant quantity of her manuscripts had disappeared without trace. It was not until 2009 that a cache of them (including two lost symphonies) was discovered by property developers in the attic of an abandoned house in Illinois – including the score for the Piano Quintet in A minor that receives its world première recording here. Although characteristically conservative in its late-romantic idiom, the piece celebrates Price’s African American heritage with echoes of spirituals and hymns, and the popular juba stomping dance rooted in the slave plantations of the Deep South.
Between these two piano quintets sits Samuel Barber’s early Dover Beach, a setting of Matthew Arnold’s famous poem that has remained one of the best-known works in the voice-and-quartet repertoire.
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective:
- Matthew Rose (bass)
- Elena Urioste (violin)
- Melissa White (violin)
- Rosalind Ventris (viola)
- Laura van der Heijden (cello)
- Tom Poster (piano)
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