Amy Beach

Classical Album Review: American Quintets — Why Has it Taken so Long?

July 24, 2021
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This disc from the London-based Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective pairs piano quintets by Amy Beach and Florence Price with Samuel Barber’s haunting “Dover Beach.”

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Classical CD Reviews: Beach & Elgar Piano Quintets, Mark Abel’s “The Cave of Wondrous Voice,” and Ibragimova plays Shostakovich

July 1, 2020
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It took more than a century, but Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet has finally got the recording it deserves; it would be hard to beat the all-star line-up featured in The Cave of Wondrous Voice; and ready for some flawless Shostakovich?

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CD Reviews: Howell, Beach, and Chaminade Piano Concertos and Brahms String Quintets

April 1, 2017
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Hyperion builds a CD around a superb performance of Amy Beach’s magnificent Piano Concerto.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #9 – Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony

March 10, 2016
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So, is the “Gaelic” Symphony an unalloyed masterpiece? I’d argue in the affirmative.

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