While Stephen Beus pursues his career as a virtuoso pianist, performing the most famous works in the repertoire for international competitions and concerts, his first recording is an interesting album of relatively obscure music by two American composers. Compared to the warhorses by Rachmaninov and Chopin that Beus plays for prizes, the keyboard works by Samuel Barber and Marion Bauer are under-performed and under-recorded, though Bauer's are quite unfamiliar and the least represented on disc. Taking the road less traveled ...
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While Stephen Beus pursues his career as a virtuoso pianist, performing the most famous works in the repertoire for international competitions and concerts, his first recording is an interesting album of relatively obscure music by two American composers. Compared to the warhorses by Rachmaninov and Chopin that Beus plays for prizes, the keyboard works by Samuel Barber and Marion Bauer are under-performed and under-recorded, though Bauer's are quite unfamiliar and the least represented on disc. Taking the road less traveled and programming these unusual selections shows Beus to be an intelligent artist who recognizes that his audience wants to hear more than the standard fare, and knows that his reputation can only be enhanced with an album as attractive, subtle, and compelling as this one. The Sonata for piano in E flat minor (1949) is the spikiest work here, and reveals Barber's serious experimentation with modernist techniques in a manner fairly reminiscent of Prokofiev. In contrast, Excursions...
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