Bright Circle

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Label
Navona
Release Date
March 17, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRAHMS SCHUBERT TREDICI
    • PERFORMER
      Beth, Levin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 17, 2017
    • UPC
      896931003742
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NV6074
    • LABEL
      Navona
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Beth Levin

    2. II. Andantino

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Beth Levin

    3. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Beth Levin

    4. IV. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Beth Levin

    5. Aria

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    6. Variation 1

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    7. Variation 2

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    8. Variation 3

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    9. Variation 4

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    10. Variation 5

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    11. Variation 6

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    12. Variation 7

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    13. Variation 8

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    14. Variation 9

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    15. Variation 10

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    16. Variation 11

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    17. Variation 12

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    18. Variation 13

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    19. Variation 14

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    20. Variation 15

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    21. Variation 16

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    22. Variation 17

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    23. Variation 18

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    24. Variation 19

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    25. Variation 20

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    26. Variation 21

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    27. Variation 22

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    28. Variation 23

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    29. Variation 24

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    30. Variation 25

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    31. Fugue

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Beth Levin

    32. Ode to Music

      Composer: David Del Tredici

      Performer: Beth Levin


Bright Circle is an exquisitely programmed showcase of the interconnectivity underlying the tradition of solo piano in Classical music. Pianist Beth Levin shines as she navigates the romantic masterpieces of Schubert and Brahms, and their very new counterpart - David Del Tredici's 2014 work, Ode to Music. Levin's performance is particularly remarkable in the way she places the Del tRedici within the context of Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 20 and Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Del Tredici's music is an excellent choice to be set alongside two romantic stalwarts, as it aims to recapture the expressive language of nineteenth century European composers. Beyond this general association, all three works on Bright Circle truly are kindred spirits. Schubert and Brahms belong to the same tradition of German romanticism that arose and matured in the early - and mid-nineteenth century. Ode to Music is a fantasy on Schubert's art song An die Musik. Essentially, Bright Circle is defined by music that takes older ideas and reconstitutes them in a new, transformative setting. This is certainly the case with Brahms' Variations, which serves as Bright Circle's backbone. By the time Brahms set to work on this piece in the late 1850's, large sets of variations for piano were a common form for Romantic composers to flex their muscles. However, Brahms departed from the grandeur typical of these precedents - namely, Beethoven's famed Diabelli Variations - and challenged himself to study and assimilate aspects of Baroque forms into his treatment of Handel's theme. The melody at the heart of the variations originated in a work for harpsichord, and Brahms' appreciation of this fact is evident in restrained virtuosity of his piano writing.