Songs of Amy Beach
Patrick Mason, baritone; Joanne Polk, piano
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Songs of Amy Beach
Patrick Mason, baritone
Joanne Polk, piano
Twilight, Op. 2, No. 1
Empress of Night, Op. 2, No. 3
The Summer Wind, Op. 14, No. 1
Sweetheart, Sigh No More, Op. 14, No. 3
Golden Gates, Op. 19, No. 3
Villanelle, Op. 20
Wouldn't That Be Queer, Op. 26, No. 4
Within My Heart, Op. 29, No. 1
Anita, Op. 41, No. 1
The Year's at the Spring, Op. 44, No. 1
Ah, Love, but a day! Op. 44, No. 2
Come, ah come! Op. 48, No. 1
Good Morning, Op. 48, No. 2
Go Not Too Far, Op. 56, No. 2
Shena Van, Op. 56, No. 4
Baby, Op. 69, No. 1
O Sweet Content, Op. 71, No. 2
Wind o'the Westland, Op. 77, No. 2
In the Twilight, Op. 85
Mine Be the Lips, Op. 113
Dark Garden, Op. 131
I Shall be Brave, Op. 143
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2007 Grammy Nominee
Best Vocal Recording
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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.
These Patrick Mason recordings are also available on Bridge:
Schubert: Die Winterreise; with Phyllis East, piano
BRIDGE
9053
Songs of Ravel, Fauré, Poulenc and Dutilleux; with Robert Spillman, piano;
BRIDGE
9058
Stephen Sondheim: Sunday Song Set; with David Starobin, guitar; on
BRIDGE
9009
Tod Machover: VALIS, an opera on the novel by Philip K. Dick; BRIDGE
9007
Elliott Carter: Three Poems of Robert Frost; with Speculum Musicae; on
BRIDGE
9014
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