Piano Heroines: Hensel, Wieck, Beach, Price | Alpha ALPHA1231

Piano Heroines: Hensel, Wieck, Beach, Price

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1231

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Expected Release Date: 30th January 2026

Contents

Works

Beach, Amy

A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, op.108
Fantasia Fugata, op.87
Sketches (4), op.15

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Capriccio in B minor, H349
Das Jahr (The Year)
» no.2 Februar: Scherzo
» no.5 Mai: Fruhlingslied
» no.6 Juni: Serenade
» no.9 September: Am Flusse

Price, Florence

Cotton Dance
Fantasie negre no.2 in G minor
Meditation
Waltz of the Spring Maid
Your Hands in Mine

Schumann, Clara

Piano Concerto in A minor, op.7
» II Romanze
Pieces caracteristiques (4), op.5
» no.2 Caprice a la Bolero
» no.4 Scene fantastique: Le Ballet des Revenants
Soirees musicales (6), op.6
» no.2 Notturno
» no.6 Polonaise

Artists

Claire Huangci (piano)

Works

Beach, Amy

A Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, op.108
Fantasia Fugata, op.87
Sketches (4), op.15

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Capriccio in B minor, H349
Das Jahr (The Year)
» no.2 Februar: Scherzo
» no.5 Mai: Fruhlingslied
» no.6 Juni: Serenade
» no.9 September: Am Flusse

Price, Florence

Cotton Dance
Fantasie negre no.2 in G minor
Meditation
Waltz of the Spring Maid
Your Hands in Mine

Schumann, Clara

Piano Concerto in A minor, op.7
» II Romanze
Pieces caracteristiques (4), op.5
» no.2 Caprice a la Bolero
» no.4 Scene fantastique: Le Ballet des Revenants
Soirees musicales (6), op.6
» no.2 Notturno
» no.6 Polonaise

Artists

Claire Huangci (piano)

About

After a ‘spellbinding’ album for Alpha devoted to her American roots (ALPHA1071), pianist Claire Huangci now celebrates female composers, acknowledging: ‘The realities these women faced are difficult to imagine for any modern woman in the field.’ Clara Wieck (who became Schumann after her marriage to Robert in 1840) was a mother of eight and the main breadwinner, constantly on tour. Fanny Hensel composed largely in private, often publishing under her brother’s name. Amy Beach’s career was practically silenced during her marriage; only upon her husband’s death did she return to the stage. Florence Price faced both racial and gender discrimination and later raised two children alone. Across the centuries, the voices of these women reach us thanks to musicians like Claire: ‘In their music, we don’t just hear history. We hear transformation. Heroines is my way of listening back – and adding my voice to theirs.’

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