Made in USA - Gershwin, Beach & Barber / Claire Huangci

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
September 20, 2024
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, George Gershwin, Earl Wild
    • PERFORMER
      Claire Huangci
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 20, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510711
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1071
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Rhapsody in Blue (version for piano)

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    2. Theme: Adagio malincolico

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    3. Variation 1

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    4. Variation 2

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    5. Variation 3

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    6. Variation 4

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    7. Variation 5

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    8. Variation 6: Quasi fantasia - Allegro all'ongarese

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    9. Variation 7

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    10. Variation 8

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    11. Variation 8: Marcia funerale

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    12. Cadenza

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    13. I. Allegro energico

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    14. II. Allegro vivace e leggero

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    15. III. Adagio mesto

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    16. IV. Fuga: Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    17. No. 1. Liza

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    18. No. 2. Somebody Loves Me

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    19. No. 3. The Man I Love

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    20. No. 4. Embraceable You

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    21. No. 5. Lady Be Good

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    22. No. 6. I Got Rhythm

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci

    23. No. 7. Fascinatin' Rhythm

      Composer: Earl Wild

      Performer: Claire Huangci


Presented as 'An Experiment in Modern Music' when it was premiered in 1924, Rhapsody in Blue made George Gershwin famous, and he soon set to work on a version for solo piano, recorded here by Claire Huangci. In her first solo disc for Alpha Classics, Claire was keen to celebrate this centenary alongside her roots in America, where she was born, studied music and made her debut as a concert artist at the age of nine. The brilliant improviser and transcriber Earl Wild (1915-2010) took Gershwin's songs (Liza, Fascinatin' Rhythm, Somebody Loves Me, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, Oh, Lady Be Good, The Man I Love) to form the basis of his Seven Virtuoso Etudes for solo piano. Equally virtuosic is the Op. 26 Sonata by Samuel Barber, whom Vladimir Horowitz (who premiered the work in Havana in December 1949) regarded as one of the few Americans capable of writing for the piano. The New Hampshire-born composer Amy Beach took her inspiration from the folk music of both the New World and the Balkans, while retaining her harmonic language inherited from the Romantics. Her Variations Op. 60 (1904) bear witness to these influences.