Treasures from the New World: Piano Quintets by Amy Beach & Henrique Oswald

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Charming late-Romantic piano quintets by Beach and Oswald, which doff their caps to the European Romantic traditions. Such works could use a more colourful interpretation — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2020
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0609
Label: Somm
Length: 66 minutes

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Beach, A: Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor Op. 67

Work length29:21

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Clélia Iruzun
Coull Quartet

I. Adagio

Track length9:43

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II. Adagio espressivo

Track length9:29

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III. Allegro agitato

Track length10:09

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Oswald, H: Piano Quintet

Work length26:52

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Clélia Iruzun
Coull Quartet

I. Allegro moderato

Track length8:02

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II. Scherzo

Track length4:01

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III. Molto adagio

Track length7:19

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IV. Molto allegro

Track length7:30

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Nobre: Poema XXI, Op. 94 No. 21

Work length3:54

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Clélia Iruzun
Coull Quartet

Beach, A: Romance, Op. 23

Work length6:32

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Roger Coull, Clélia Iruzun

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SOMM Recordings presents Treasures from the New World – a compelling collection of late-Romantic and contemporary works for piano and string quartet from the Americas brimming with all the colour, energy, and emotion of that great continent. Rio de Janeiro-born piano virtuoso Clélia Iruzun teams up with the Coull Quartet for a varied and vital programme championing the music of her Brazilian compatriots Henrique Oswald and Marlos Nobre and the pioneering American Amy Beach. Influenced by Brahms and Schumann, Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor (1908) is stamped through with a lyrically melancholic and pensive signature all its own. For her Romance for Violin and Piano (1893), a work of hypnotic gracefulness and aching emotions, Iruzun partners with the Coull Quartet’s first violinist, Roger Coull. Receiving its first recording outside of Brazil, Henrique Oswald’s Piano Quintet in C major (1895) was composed in Florence. Marlos Nobre’s Poema XXI – here in its premiere recording – carries itself with a distinctive character drawing on traditional South American dances to produce something effusive, elegant and exotic in equal measure. Clélia Iruzun’s previous recordings for SOMM include two volumes of music by Federico Mompou (SOMMCD 0121 and 0155) and Piano Concertos by Albeniz & Mignone (SOMMCD 265) with the RPO and Jac van Steen – nominated for an International Classical Music Award in 2019.

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July 2020

Charming late-Romantic piano quintets by Beach and Oswald, which doff their caps to the European Romantic traditions. Such works could use a more colourful interpretation

March/April 2021

[Iruzun] she’s invariably responsive to the changing needs of the music. Her technique is up to the most virtuoso demands these composers throw at her, and no matter how grand the gestures, her tone never hardens...Good orchestral support, fine sound, and illuminating notes round out a first-class release.

June 2020

Warmly recorded and passionately played.

July 2020

Clélia Iruzun is a sterling advocate with impeccable phrasing, tone and timing. She digs deep, her sensual bass, glowing treble and cantabile mid register enhanced through some particularly fine sound engineering (Oscar Torres). Tight playing, too, from the Coull Quartet, pursuing colour, tension and musical debate with alacrity.

Classical Music April 2020

[Beach] The balance between the piano and quartet is well judged, the recording highlighting important voices without moving in too close. Iruzun integrates with the quartet seamlessly and throughout the ensemble is impressive. [Oswald] ...passionate late Romanticism at its most beguiling, interrupted by a short Scherzo. The luscious Adagio is as fine as anything in a similar genre from its time.

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