Amy Beach: Songs / Patrick Mason, Joanne Polk

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Label
Bridge Records
Release Date
November 29, 2005
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEACH, AMY
    • PERFORMER
      Patrick Mason
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 29, 2005
    • UPC
      090404918223
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BCD9182
    • LABEL
      Bridge Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    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)


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.