Katia Spluga - Present Reflections (2025) [Official Digital Download]

The album "Present Reflections" offers an anthology of Amy Beach's piano works, showcasing her remarkablecompositional talent and stylistic range-from expressive virtuosity to deep interpretativeintimacy. This distinctive quality is due not only to her extraordinary gift but also to several factors: theprofound cultural shifts she experienced between the late 19th and early 20th centuries-bridging lateRomanticism, the emergence of the avant-garde, and the advent of jazz-and her unmistakable emotionalexpressiveness. Despite the strict, self-imposed discipline of her compositional process (she wasentirely self-taught), her style remains deeply personal and authentic in every work. Looking back intime, beginning with her later compositions, one can observe a radical evolution in her writing.These works are not only a significant contribution to American piano literature but also a testamentto the transformation of an era-one that slips away from the present to become almost immediatelypart of the past. In this way, Present Reflections becomes a mirror of today's world, reflecting the epochalchanges of which we are all a part. Mrs. Beach's incredible talent, which enabled her to emergeas one of the greatest composers of her time, tells the story of both women and men-transcendingthe limitations imposed by society and leaving behind a musical legacy that deserves not only rediscoverybut celebration.Katia Spluga

TRACKLIST

1. Katia Spluga - 2 Piano Pieces, Op. 54: No. 1, Scottish Legend
2. Katia Spluga - 2 Piano Pieces, Op. 54: No. 2, Gavotte Fantastique
3. Katia Spluga - Prelude & Fugue, Op. 81
4. Katia Spluga - Fantasia fugata, Op. 87
5. Katia Spluga - Hermit Thrush, Op. 92: No. 1, The Hermit Thrush at Eve
6. Katia Spluga - Hermit Thrush, Op. 92: No. 2, The Hermit Thrush at Morn
7. Katia Spluga - Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op. 108
8. Katia Spluga - By the Still Waters, Op. 114
9. Katia Spluga - 5 Improvisations, Op. 148: No. 1, Lento, molto tranquillo
10. Katia Spluga - 5 Improvisations, Op. 148: No. 2, Allegretto grazioso e capriccioso
11. Katia Spluga - 5 Improvisations, Op. 148: No. 3, Allegro con delicatezza
12. Katia Spluga - 5 Improvisations, Op. 148: No. 4, Molto lento e tranquillo
13. Katia Spluga - 5 Improvisations, Op. 148: No. 5, Largo maestoso



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