Beach - Piano Music
£15.15
Usually available for despatch within 3-5 working days
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10277
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 10th November 2023
Contents
Works
A Hermit Thrush at Eve, op.92 no.1From Grandmother's Garden, op.97
Out of the Depths, op.130
Pianoforte Pieces (3), op.128
Prelude and Fugue, op.81
Serenade 'Standchen' (after R Strauss)
Sketches (4), op.15
Artists
Martina Frezzotti (piano)Works
A Hermit Thrush at Eve, op.92 no.1From Grandmother's Garden, op.97
Out of the Depths, op.130
Pianoforte Pieces (3), op.128
Prelude and Fugue, op.81
Serenade 'Standchen' (after R Strauss)
Sketches (4), op.15
Artists
Martina Frezzotti (piano)About
Beach continued to compose, however, and steadly so through the last decade of the 19th century and well into the 20th. The earliest piece on Martina Frezzotti’s recital is also one of her most familiar, the nocturne Dreaming from 1892, in which she emulates a Chopin model with piano writing that’s deceptively simple on the page but uniquely haunting on the ear.
The album’s most substantial work is the 25-minute Variations on Balkan Themes, from 1904. The four themes in question were passed on to her by a missionary to the region, and the piece amounts to a proud cry for Serbian nationalism in the post-Lisztian style. Through its course, Beach writes in the style of a barcarolle, a parlour waltz, a funeral march, a Hungarian dance and much more, weaving together her material with a sure hand.
Beach’s own skill as a pianist surely contributes to the soft tonal shades she conjures in her transcription of Richard Strauss’s song Ständchen. She also explored the possibilities of making accurate musical transcriptions of birdsong decades before Olivier Messiaen did so, and her most celebrated work in this vein is the achingly beautiful Hermit-Thrush at Eve from 1922.
Martina Frezzotti’s album of Fanny Mendelssohn for Piano Classics (PCL10238) won enthusiastic praise from David Hurwitz on a video review for Classics Today. According to pianodao.com (Andrew Eales), ‘Frezzotti proves a brilliant advocate for these pieces in this recording, combining a poetic sensibility with the necessary weight and flair to showcase the more dazzling elements of Mendelssohn’s piano writing. The recording is bright, reverberant and luminous.’
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here