Amy Beach: Songs / Patrick Mason, Joanne Polk

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Label
Bridge Records
Release Date
November 29, 2005
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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.



Product Description:

  • Release Date: November 29, 2005


  • UPC: 090404918223


  • Catalog Number: BCD9182


  • Label: Bridge Records


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Amy, Beach


  • Performer: Patrick Mason



Works:

  1. Songs (3), Op. 2: no 1, Twilight

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  2. Songs (3), Op. 2: no 3, Empress of Night

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  3. Songs (4), Op. 14: no 1, The Summer Wind

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  4. Songs (4), Op. 14: no 3, Sweetheart, sigh no more

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  5. Songs (3), Op. 19: no 3, Golden Gates

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  6. Villanelle, Op. 20

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  7. Songs (4), Op. 26: no 4, Wouldn't that be queer?

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  8. Songs (4) Op. 29: no 1, Within thy heart

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  9. Songs (4), Op. 41: no 1, Anita

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  10. Browning Songs (3), Op. 44: no 1, The year's at the spring

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  11. Browning Songs (3), Op. 44: no 2, Ah, love but a day

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  12. Songs (4), Op. 48: no 1, Come, ah come

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  13. Songs (4), Op. 48: no 2, Good Morning

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  14. Songs (4), Op. 56: no 2, Go not too far

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  15. Songs (4), Op. 56: no 4, Shena Van

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  16. Mother Songs (2), Op. 69: no 1, Baby

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  17. Songs (3), Op. 71: no 2, O sweet content

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  18. Songs (2), Op. 77: no 2, Wind o'the Westland

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  19. In the twilight, Op. 85

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  20. Mine be the Lips, Op. 113

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  21. Dark Garden, Op. 131

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)


  22. I shall be brave, Op. 143

    Composer: Amy Marcy Beach

    Performer: Patrick Mason (Baritone), Joanne Polk (Piano)