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Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth & Amy Beach
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Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth & Amy Beach

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Composer
BEACH SCHUMANN SMYTH
Artist
Little, Lenehan
Format
CD
Label
Chandos
Released
Feb 01, 2019
Catalog #
CHAN 20030
UPC
095115203026

About

Renowned violinist Tasmin Little returns to Chandos with a line-up of three women composers whose lives share some features but also significant differences that illustrate the complex lives of female musicians. Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth and Amy Beach all came from families that encouraged their musical interests but balked, in varying degrees, at professional training and engagement. All three composers draw on the influence of Robert Schumann and Brahms; Beach and Smyth in particular were fond of metrical and motivic manipulation.Tasmin Little plays this music close to her heart with her usual warmth and dexterity. The manuscript to Clara Schumann’s final chamber work Three Romances states ‘for piano and violin’, an ordering reflected in the relative complexity of the parts, the florid passagework here played beautifully by long-term collaborator with Little, John Lenehan.

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REVIEWS:

This delightful, beautifully performed album makes an emphatic, seemingly effortless case for these composers’ music.

– BBC Music Magazine

Neither the Beach or the Smyth, surely, has ever been treated to anything like Little’s gleaming, endlessly fluid tone or John Lenehan’s warmly characterised, unfailingly sensitive pianism. There’s a flexibility and sense of sweep to Little and Lenehan’s performance of the Beach that’s utterly persuasive on its own terms. The two players respond to each other as if by instinct.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 09:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    09:12
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  2. 2 II. Scherzo 04:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Scherzo
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  3. 3 III. Largo con dolore 07:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Largo con dolore
    Duration
    07:45
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  4. 4 IV. Allegro con fuoco 06:59
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro con fuoco
    Duration
    06:59
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  5. 5 No. 1. Andante molto 02:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1. Andante molto
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  6. 6 No. 2. Allegretto 02:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2. Allegretto
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  7. 7 No. 3. Leidenschaftlich schnell 03:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Leidenschaftlich schnell
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Clara Schumann
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  8. 8 I. Allegro moderato 08:38
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    08:38
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  9. 9 II. Scherzo: Allegro grazioso 02:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Scherzo: Allegro grazioso
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  10. 10 III. Romanze: Andante grazioso 07:15
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Romanze: Andante grazioso
    Duration
    07:15
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  11. 11 IV. Finale: Allegro vivace 05:24
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro vivace
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Ethel Smyth
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  12. 12 Romance, Op. 23 06:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    Romance, Op. 23
    Duration
    06:19
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan
  13. 13 Invocation, Op. 55 03:56
    Track
    13
    Title
    Invocation, Op. 55
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Amy Beach
    Performer
    Tasmin Little, John Lenehan