Margaret Fingerhut – Endless Song – Margaret Fingerhut Plays Encores for Piano (2014/2022) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Margaret Fingerhut – Endless Song – Margaret Fingerhut Plays Encores for Piano (2014/2022)
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Pianist Margaret Fingerhut presents a collection of encore-like pieces that explore the way in which composers have transformed the piano, in essence a percussion instrument, into one that can sing. A highly personal album, it has come about after a recent period of injuries threatened Fingerhut’s own ‘song’ – her ability to play the piano.The album takes its title from John Metcalf’s beautiful piece of 1999, the most recent work on the programme. Its lilting melody, suggestive of folksong or lullaby, takes us back to Felix Mendelssohn who established the enduring notion of the ‘Song without Words’. He composed eight volumes of such short and simple pieces, two of which are recorded here. Liszt, the master transcriber, took a very different approach in his virtuoso arrangements of songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin. Nodding toward popular music styles, Poulenc paid affectionate tribute to Edith Piaf in his Improvisation No. 15 while Gershwin brought together his own sparkling song transcriptions in George Gershwin’s Song-Book, six of which Fingerhut has selected. Folksong and musical nationalism infuse the evocative works by Suk, Albéniz, and Guastavino recorded here. Two pieces by one of the most celebrated melodists of all, Rachmaninoff, complete the album: ‘Mélodie’, Op. 3 No. 3 and the famous Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14, originally written for a vocalising singer.

Tracklist:

01. Margaret Fingerhut – Metcalf: Endless Song (05:26)
02. Margaret Fingerhut – Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Book 2, Op. 30: No. 12 in F-Sharp Minor, MWV U110, “Venetianisches Gondedellied” (03:12)
03. Margaret Fingerhut – Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, Book 1, Op. 19b: No. 3 in A Major, MWV U89, “Jägerlied” (02:21)
04. Margaret Fingerhut – Schubert: Zwolf Lieder von Schubert, S. 558, R. 243: XII. Ave Maria (06:33)
05. Margaret Fingerhut – Schumann: Widmung, S. 566 (After R. Schumann’s Liebeslied) (04:17)
06. Margaret Fingerhut – Chopin: Six Chants Polonais after F. Chopin, S. 480, R. 145: I. Madchens Wunsch (04:11)
07. Margaret Fingerhut – Suk: Six Piano Pieces, Op. 7: I. Song of Love (06:51)
08. Margaret Fingerhut – Poulenc: Improvisation No. 15 in C Minor, FP 176, “Hommage a Edith Piaf” (03:19)
09. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: VIII. The Man I Love (02:29)
10. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: XI. Oh, Lady Be Good (01:04)
11. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: XVII. The Certain Feeling (01:09)
12. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: XVI. ‘S Wonderful (00:58)
13. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: III. Do It Again (01:42)
14. Margaret Fingerhut – Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook: XIII. Strike Up the Band (01:07)
15. Margaret Fingerhut – Albéniz: Cantos de España, Op. 232: IV. Córdoba (06:20)
16. Margaret Fingerhut – Albéniz: Cantos de España, Op. 232: V. Seguidillas (03:13)
17. Margaret Fingerhut – Guastavino: 10 Cantilenas Argentinas: IV. El Ceibo (03:21)
18. Margaret Fingerhut – Guastavino: Bailecito (03:39)
19. Margaret Fingerhut – Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantasie, Op. 3: III. Melodie in E Major (05:13)
20. Margaret Fingerhut – Rachmaninoff: 14 Romances, Op. 34: XIV. Vocalise in E Minor (Arr. for Piano) (Revised 1915) (06:34)

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