Music of Beach, Foote, Farwell, and Orem

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Catalogue No: NW80542
Label: New World
Length: 76 minutes

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Orem: American Indian Rhapsody

Work length8:01

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Peter Basquin

Farwell: Navajo War Dance (for piano)

Work length2:20

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Peter Basquin

Farwell: Pawnee Horses

Work length1:17

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Peter Basquin

Farwell: The Old Man's Love Song, Op. 102, No. 2

Work length6:49

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Peter Basquin
New World Singers
John Miner

Farwell: Navajo War Dance, Op. 102, No. 1

Work length3:32

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Peter Basquin
New World Singers
John Miner

Beach, A: Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Minor, Op.34

Work length28:51

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Gilbert Kalish, Joseph Silverstein

I. Allegro moderato

Track length9:11

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II. Scherzo: Molto vivace

Track length4:14

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III. Largo con dolore

Track length8:04

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IV. Allegro con fuoco

Track length7:22

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Foote: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Minor, Op. 20

Work length25:32

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Joseph Silverstein, Gilbert Kalish

I. Allegro appassionato

Track length5:15

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II. Andantino grazioso: Alla siciliano

Track length4:26

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III. Adagio

Track length7:39

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length8:12

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Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944) was the first successful American woman composer and her recent rediscovery, aided by a steady stream of recordings of her music, has led to a renewed interest in her rich and varied output. The Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Minor is one of her masterworks and possesses all the qualities that typify the late Romantic style of the Boston school-rugged, beautiful melodies, lush harmonies, restless chromaticism, and a rock-solid structural design.

Fellow Bostonian Arthur Foote (1853-1937) was America's leading composer of chamber music in the nineteenth century and his lush Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Minor, his masterwork, is one of the glories of American chamber music.

Arthur Farwell (1872-1952) was the major figure of the Indianist movement which sought to study and preserve American Indian music as well as draw inspiration from it in an effort to create a truly American music. Navajo War Dance and Pawnee Horses, both for solo piano, are brief evocations, one martial, the other bucolic, of American Indian life. In the scrupulously notated unaccompanied choral arrangements of Navajo War Dance and The Old Man’s Love Song, Farwell went far beyond any other Indianist composer in achieving what may perhaps be best described as “creative authenticity.”

Preston Ware Orem's (1865-1938) American Indian Rhapsody for piano is probably the most far-out Indianist composition ever written, overflowing with neo-Lisztian flourishes-abundant trills, arpeggios, broken chords, and repeated octaves (often thunderous).

Music of Beach, Foote, Farwell, and Orem

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