timeless
Rea Beaumont, piano
Album of the Week - CBC Radio
WORKS
Philip Glass: Mad Rush
John Adams: China Gates
Jordan Nobles: Zephyrus*
Srul Irving Glick: Six Preludes*
Rea Beaumont: Aldeburgh - By the Sea*
Rea Beaumont: The Goodbye*
Jordan Pal: Study in White (commission: TAC for Rea Beaumont)*
*Canadian composer, premiere
A Conversation Piece
Rea Beaumont, piano
A CONVERSATION PIECE, Rea Beaumont piano
(2014, SPP 0090)
REVIEWS
"it’s beautiful” - American Public Media
“skillful playing (virtuoso!) and moving, and each time you listen you discover more details and colors” - Radio Amsterdam
ABOUT
Each composition is based on an extramusical theme that can be the subject for further discussion or ‘a conversation piece,’ including environmental destruction, technology, and more. Album is named after a movement in Canadian composer’s John Weinzweig’s Suite No. 2.
WORKS
Rea Beaumont: Shattered Ice*
John Weinzweig: Suite No. 2
John Weinzweig: Netscapes*
Jean Coulthard: Threnody*
R. Murray Schafer: Polytonality
Maurice Ravel: Miroirs
*Première recording, Canadian composer
creating a landscape
Rea Beaumont, piano
ABOUT
Pianist Rea Beaumont’s second album Creating a Landscape provides a unique musical experience, with works ranging from meditative to virtuosic. Beaumont explores how performers and composers shape our auditory landscape through music and she draws parallels with mankind’s impact on the physical landscape as a result of over-population.
WORKS
Arvo Pärt: Für Alina
John Cage: In a Landscape
Anton Kuerti: Six Arrows*
Colin McPhee: Four Piano Sketches
Barbara Pentland: Vincula
Brent Lee: Subjective Geometries*
*Première recording, Canadian composer
a shrinking planet
Rea Beaumont, piano
ABOUT
With NASA’s famous photo “Earthrise” photo as its cover, Beaumont’s first album A Shrinking Planet communicates that we are a global community. The album was one of the first to highlight the influences of globalization in Canadian new music. Named after this premiere recording of Barbara Pentland’s Small Pieces for a Shrinking Planet, the album features virtuosic works by Canadian composers who each address mankind’s innate desire to search and explore. Premiered on CBC Radio.
WORKS
Alice Ho: Garage*
Barbara Pentland: Small Pieces for a Shrinking Planet*
Chan Ka Nin: In Search Of…. *
(commissioned by CBC for Rea Beaumont)
Walter Buczynski: Sonata / Sounds
*première recording, Canadian composer.