Episode 5
Donald Macleod focuses on the last decade of Amy Beach's life, when she started to feel her age. With a rare performance of the chamber opera Cabildo.
Now well into her sixties, by the mid-1930s Amy Beach was finally beginning to feel her age. Moving to Manhattan, she embarked on a remarkable final chapter in her musical life, producing some of her most distinctive songs and piano works, as well as a Creole-infused chamber opera, "Cabildo".
Donald Macleod explores the music of Amy Beach's last decade.
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Amy Beach
Dark Garden, Op.131 (1932)
Performers: Patrick Mason (baritone), Joanne Polk (piano)
- BRIDGE 9182.
- 21.
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Amy Beach
Three Piano Pieces, Op.128 (1928), Scherzino: A Peterboro Chipmunk
Performer: Joanne Polk (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 14.
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Amy Beach
Three Piano Pieces, Op.128 (1928), Scherzino: Young Birches
Performer: Joanne Polk (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 15.
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Amy Beach
Three Piano Pieces, Op.128 (1928), Scherzino: A Humming Bird
Performer: Joanne Polk (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 16.
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Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.150 (1938), I. Allegro
Performers: The Romantic Chamber Group of London: Paul Barritt (violin), Charles Medlam (cello), James Lisney (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 14.
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Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.150 (1938), II. Lento Espressivo
Performers: The Romantic Chamber Group of London: Paul Barritt (violin), Charles Medlam (cello), James Lisney (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 15.
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Amy Beach
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.150 (1938), III. Allegro Con Brio
Performers: The Romantic Chamber Group of London: Paul Barritt (violin), Charles Medlam (cello), James Lisney (piano)
- ARABESQUE 26693.
- 16.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), Prologue: Introduction
Performers: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 1.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), Ladies and Gentlemen! This Way
Performer: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 2.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), One Night, As They Joined In The Dance
Performer: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 3.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), Ladies and Gentlemen! We Will Now Proceed
Performer: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 4.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), Ah, Love Is A Jasmine Vine With Tendrils Delica
Performer: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 12.
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Amy Beach
Cabildo (excerpt), Op.149 (1932, fp 1947), Tempo Di Duetto
Performer: Barker - Stephen Mo Harker (speaker), Tom - Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Mary - Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo), Pierre Lafitte - Eugene Perry (baritone), Dominique You - Paul Groves (tenor), Gaoler - Thomas Paul (bass), The Lady Valerie - Lauren Flanigan (soprano), The New York Concert Singers, Mark Peskanov (violin), Carter Brey (cello), Christopher O'Riley (piano), Ransom Wilson (director)
- DELOS DE31730.
- 13.
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Amy Beach
Two Late Songs: I Sought The Lord, Op.142 (1937)
Performer: Katherine Kelton (mezzo), Catherine Bringerud (piano)
- NAXOS 8559191.
- 34.
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Amy Beach
Though I Take The Wings Of Morning, Op.152 (1941)
Performer: Katherine Kelton (mezzo), Catherine Bringerud (piano)
- NAXOS 8559191.
- 34 to 36.
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- Fri 6 Aug 201012:00BBC Radio 3
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