Amy Beach: Fire Flies

Amy Beach: Fire Flies

Amy Beach: Fire Flies
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Performer: Joanne Polk
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-03-05
Music Label: Arabesque Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. Four Sketches, Op. 15: In Autumn
  2. Four Sketches, Op. 15: Phatoms
  3. Four Sketches, Op. 15: Dreaming
  4. Four Sketches, Op. 15: Fire-Flies
  5. Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87
  6. Transcription Of Richard Strauss' Sereande
  7. Five Improvisations, Op. 148: Lento molto tranquillo, A Major
  8. Five Improvisations, Op. 148: Allegretto grazioso e capriccioso, A Major
  9. Five Improvisations, Op. 148: Allegro con delicatezza, G Major
  10. Five Improvisations, Op. 148: Molto lento e tranquillo, G-Flat Major
  11. Five Improvisations, Op. 148: Largo maestoso, E-Flat Minor
  12. Tryolean Valse-Fantasie, Op. 116
  13. Eskimos, Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 64: Arctic Night
  14. Eskimos, Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 64: The Returning Hunter
  15. Eskimos, Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 64: Exiles
  16. Eskimos, Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 64: With Dog-Teams
  17. Nocturne, Op. 107
  18. From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: Morning Glories
  19. From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: Heartease
  20. From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: Mignonette
  21. From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: Rosemary And Rue
  22. From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97: Honeysuckle

Music reviews of Amy Beach: Fire Flies

Music Review: BEACH AT HER BEST (YET AGAIN, AND LASTLY)
Rating: 5 Stars

With this third installment, Joanne Polk completes her consistently thoughtful, exceptionally performed and unforgettably diverse traversal of the solo piano music of New England's own, Mrs. Amy Beach [1867-1944].

In reviews of Volume 1 ("By the Still Waters") [February 11, 2003] and Volume 2 ("Under the Stars") [October 24, 2000], never having heard any of these works before, and being caught completely off guard by the continuous melodic invention, ingenuity and personal voice of Beach, I had hoped to adequately express my excitement and enthusiasm. There were wonders here unique to the repertoire--- the marvelous Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60, the attractive miniatures of Op. 128, the Valse-Caprice, Op. 4, the mournful Hermit Thrush "dialogues" of Op. 92--- that needed talking about.

Volume 3 ("Fireflies") offers, if possible, piano music even more strikingly original than its predecessors. There are inspired creations here, too--- the lyrical, Schumannesque Four Sketches, Op. 15, the delightfully comic, almost jazzy Fantasia, Op. 87, with its slips and slurs trippingly mindful of Bach, the forward-looking miniatures of Op. 148, which subtly recall Brahms, Scriabin and, of all people, Ernesto Lecuona, the atmospheric impressionism of the Nocturne, Op. 107, the wistful Elgar-like ruminations aptly titled From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97--- that cry out to be recognized and heard.

The apostolic Ms. Polk enables us to do both. By her absolute communion with the composer, she transfixes, her breadth of vision, every thought, whim and nuance captured to perfection in a recording of incredible clarity and warmth. Absorption such as this precludes the notion that these pieces can be played any other way.

[Running time: 69:38]

Description of Amy Beach: Fire Flies

Amy Beach - Fire Flies by Joanne Polk

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After By the Still Waters and Under the Stars, Fire-Flies is Joanne Polk's third and final recorded volume devoted to the piano works of the American composer Amy Beach, who was born in 1867 and died in 1944. The varied and always beguiling works span the composer's career and include "sketches" and "improvisations" as well as her piano transcription of Richard Strauss's lied (German art song), Standchen. Polk's interpretations are fluid and clear, by turns impassioned and ethereal. In the laudable effort to bring Beach's music greater recognition, Polk is in good company; the Hildegard Publishing Company has recently reprinted a number of Beach's works and Adrienne Fried Bloch has written a Beach biography, published this year by Oxford University Press. --Gwendolyn Freed

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