Hopekirk: Piano Music / Steigerwalt

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
August 4, 2017
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HOPEKIRK, HELEN
    • PERFORMER
      Gary Steigerwalt
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 04, 2017
    • UPC
      5060113444301
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0430
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Wandering

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    2. II. Cronan: A Hushing Song

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    3. III. In the Ruins

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    4. IV. A Twilight Tale

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    5. Romance in A Minor

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    6. Serenade in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    7. No. 1. Land o' the Leal

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    8. No. 2. Turn Ye to Me

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    9. No. 5. Eilidh Bhan

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    10. Sundown

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    11. Serenata Suite: I. Maestoso

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    12. I. Sarabande

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    13. II. Minuet

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    14. III. Air

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    15. Waltz in F-Sharp Major

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    16. 2 Compositions for Piano: No. 1. Shadows

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    17. Robin Good-Fellow

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    18. No. 1. Dance to Your Shadow

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt

    19. No. 2. The Seal-woman's Sea-joy

      Composer: Helen Hopekirk

      Performer: Gary Steigerwalt


The Scottish musician Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945) was regarded as one of the major concert pianists of her generation. She also made a lasting contribution as a piano teacher in Boston, Mass., after her emigration in 1897. As a composer, she forged an intriguing path by turning to the music of her native country as the wellspring of her creativity. The early pieces can sound like Brahms in the Highlands, and her later works marry Debussyan Impressionism with Hebridean folk-music, to evocative, touching and exhilarating effect. This is the first album dedicated to Hopekirk's music. Gary Steigerwalt, who is writing a biography of Helen Hopekirk, recently retired as a professor on the music faculty of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusets, where he taught for 35 years. He gave the first performance in over a century of her Concertstuck with the Mount Holyoke College Symphony Orchestra in 2015.