Songs of Amy Beach <BR> BRIDGE 91822007 Grammy Nominee Best Vocal Recording Amy Beach (1873 1942) was probably the first woman composer to gain attention for writing successfully in the large forms of the nineteenth century: symphony, concerto, oratorio and chamber music. But it is in her songs and solo piano music that we glimpse a more private and intimate Beach. Beach produced more than 120 songs, only a few of which are known to the general public. This superb CD presents 22 of

Camerata de las Americas

and for this listener

"Fairytale" is based on a passage from one of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser known fairytales

Here are pianism and musicianship of the very highest order

Speculum Musicae accompanies the superb American soprano

and his powers are heard to excellent advantage in the three works comprising this release

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“This is an immensely attractive record

I can’t imagine a finer gesture to a great composer in his 70th year

annotator Hayes Biggs writes that “it is possible to view the individual songs as points along a continuum

created in 1932

as part of its new Garrick Ohlsson Edition