Amy Beach’s piano quintet proved a deservedly popular success in its early years. It makes a compelling—and surprising—match for Elgar’s own piano quintet: a late work contemporary with the cello concerto, and which inhabits the same emotional landscape.
‘By way of the imposing nature of the resources—string quartet and piano—the approach to the genre is inevitably one of an epic nature, almost orchestral in its bold sound and texture, fluctuating bet ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘For me, the outstanding thing here is the coupling, the Piano Quintet from 1907 by American composer Amy Beach. It's Brahmsian in ambition and Romantic range, but hers is an original voice and I don' ...
BBC Music Magazine‘For me, the outstanding thing here is the coupling, the Piano Quintet from 1907 by American composer Amy Beach. It's Brahmsian in ambition and Romantic range, but hers is an original voice and I don' ...