Amy Beach: Songs / Patrick Mason, Joanne Polk
Amy Beach (1873-1942) was probably the first woman composer to gain attention for writing successfully in the large forms of the nineteenth century: symphony, concerto, oratorio and chamber music. But it is in her songs and solo piano music that we glimpse a more private and intimate Beach. Beach produced more than 120 songs, only a few of which are known to the general public. This superb CD presents 22 of Beach’s finest songs, a selection which ranges from some of her earliest published efforts through her later brooding masterpieces. American baritone Patrick Mason is accompanied on this recording by leading Beach specialist, pianist Joanne Polk. Together, Mason and Polk’s penetrating interpretations make an excellent case for these songs as major English language song literature.
Product Description:
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Release Date: November 29, 2005
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Catalog Number: BCD9182
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UPC: 090404918223
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Label: Bridge Records
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Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Joanne Polk, Patrick Mason
Works:
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Songs (3), Op. 2: no 1, Twilight
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (3), Op. 2: no 3, Empress of Night
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 14: no 1, The Summer Wind
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 14: no 3, Sweetheart, sigh no more
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (3), Op. 19: no 3, Golden Gates
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Villanelle, Op. 20
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 26: no 4, Wouldn't that be queer?
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4) Op. 29: no 1, Within thy heart
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 41: no 1, Anita
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Browning Songs (3), Op. 44: no 1, The year's at the spring
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Browning Songs (3), Op. 44: no 2, Ah, love but a day
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 48: no 1, Come, ah come
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 48: no 2, Good Morning
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 56: no 2, Go not too far
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (4), Op. 56: no 4, Shena Van
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Mother Songs (2), Op. 69: no 1, Baby
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (3), Op. 71: no 2, O sweet content
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Songs (2), Op. 77: no 2, Wind o'the Westland
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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In the twilight, Op. 85
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Mine be the Lips, Op. 113
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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Dark Garden, Op. 131
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)
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I shall be brave, Op. 143
Composer: Amy Marcy Beach
Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)