Album guide
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- Released
- 2002
- Label
- Venus Records
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Richard Beirach piano, George Mraz double bass, Billy Hart drums, Gregor Huebner violin on tracks 5 and 9
The title describes more than a stylistic mixture: Beirach moves between German, French, Spanish and Polish repertoire without treating national school as a boundary.
The closing “Steel Prayers” then brings the album abruptly into the present as a personal response to 11 September.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Scenes From Childhood-Op15 #1Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 1, “Von fremden Ländern und Menschen”
- Pathetique -C Minor Slow MovementBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”, II. Adagio cantabile
- Gnossiene #1, F MinorSatie: Gnossienne No. 1
- Pavane-G MinorFauré: Pavane, Op. 50
- Footprints In The Snow - Prelude For Piano Bk. 1- #6 D MinorDebussy: Préludes, Book I No. 6, “Des pas sur la neige”
- Siciliano -G MinorJ.S. Bach: Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031, II
- Impressions Intimas - #1 A MinorMompou: Impresiones íntimas No. 1, “Planys I”
- Prelude For Piano -#4 E MinorChopin: Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4
- Steel Prayers - Ballad For 9/11 WTC.Original composition by Richie Beirach