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Echoes / Urioste, Brown
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Echoes / Urioste, Brown

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Composer
BEACH RAVEL STRAUSS
Artist
Urioste, Brown
Format
CD
Label
BIS
Released
Nov 18, 2016
Catalog #
BIS-2284
UPC
7318590022849

About

Elena Urioste and Michael Brown formed a recital duo in 2009 and have performed together extensively ever since. For their first recording together they have selected four works which have formed part of their repertoire from the very beginning, resonating throughout their entire musical partnership. All four are early works, written by composers in their twenties or younger- Michael Brown was only eighteen when he composed his own contribution. As the performers put it in their liner notes, the pieces they have chosen are “imbued with an ardour that is unapologetically, deliciously youthful.” The disc opens with the only multi-movement work of the program- Richard Strauss’s expansively melodic Sonata in E flat major, written around the time when the composer met and fell in love with his future wife. A few years later, in Paris, Ravel made a first attempt at composing a violin sonata while still a student at the Conservatoire. The resulting piece, in one movement, had a single performance during Ravel’s lifetime and was only published in 1975, as Sonate posthume. Between these two works we hear Michael Brown’s Echoes of Byzantium, inspired by William Butler Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium, and an attempt to portray the meaning of the poem through music alone. The disc closes with a piece by another American composer and pianist, Amy Beach (1867-1944) The first American woman to compose and publish a symphony (first performed in 1896), she was best known for her songs, and her gift for melody is evident in the 1893 Romance for violin and piano.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro ma non troppo 11:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    11:35
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown
  2. 2 II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile 08:37
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile
    Duration
    08:37
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown
  3. 3 III. Finale: Andante - Allegro 08:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Finale: Andante - Allegro
    Duration
    08:40
    Composer
    Richard Strauss
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown
  4. 4 Echoes of Byzantium 10:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    Echoes of Byzantium
    Duration
    10:55
    Composer
    Michael Stephen Brown
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown
  5. 5 Violin Sonata, Op. posth. 13:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    Violin Sonata, Op. posth.
    Duration
    13:11
    Composer
    Maurice Ravel
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown
  6. 6 Romance, Op. 23 05:42
    Track
    6
    Title
    Romance, Op. 23
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Elena Urioste, Michael Stephen Brown