Texas-born and British-resident pianist Kirsten Johnson has investigated unusual national repertoires of the nineteenth century; she had some success with a disc of Albanian piano music, and here she takes up two composers who, though born in Germany, later spent time in Switzerland. One is a follower, the other a forerunner, making for a pleasing ...
Even if they are not the subjects of important revivals, minor composers deserve a fair hearing every now and then, and performers who champion their neglected works deserve credit for trying out new repertoire. But if one considers the derivative and tentative piano miniatures of late Romantic composer Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen to be an ...
Even now, in the early twenty first century, Amy Beach's music, like that of Cecile Cheminade, is still often relegated to the novelty shelf of piano repertoire. Hoping to further spread the praises of Beach, Kirsten Johnson begins a series of recordings devoted to the music of Beach, taking a more chronological approach than that of Joanne Polk, ...
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