Artist:
Claire Huangci
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
74:35
Record Label:
Alpha Classics
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
January 30, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Claire Huangci
Genre:
Classical
Total Time:
74:35
Record Label:
Alpha Classics
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
January 30, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: The four composers featured on Claire Huangci’s Piano Heroines album are all women whose activities were significantly restricted by the social conventions of their period, and by the idea that classical composition was a domain for men only. The music that they did produce flies in the face of such narrow expectations.
Five pieces by Fanny Henschel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, open the program. Haungci revels in the light-touch tracery of the Capriccio in B Minor, and brings a brooding poetry to “June,” one of four movements included from Henschel’s suite Das Jahr. Pinpoint textural clarity distinguishes Huangci’s performances of American composer Amy Beach’s mercurial Fantasia Fugata and the fluttering “Fire-flies” from Four Sketches. Cellist Tristan Cornut joins Huangci for a heartfelt rendition of the “Romanze” from Clara Wieck’s Piano Concerto (Wieck was Robert Schumann’s wife), and an exuberant account of Florence Price’s Cotton Dance rounds out this entertaining and informative recital.
Five pieces by Fanny Henschel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, open the program. Haungci revels in the light-touch tracery of the Capriccio in B Minor, and brings a brooding poetry to “June,” one of four movements included from Henschel’s suite Das Jahr. Pinpoint textural clarity distinguishes Huangci’s performances of American composer Amy Beach’s mercurial Fantasia Fugata and the fluttering “Fire-flies” from Four Sketches. Cellist Tristan Cornut joins Huangci for a heartfelt rendition of the “Romanze” from Clara Wieck’s Piano Concerto (Wieck was Robert Schumann’s wife), and an exuberant account of Florence Price’s Cotton Dance rounds out this entertaining and informative recital.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Capriccio in B Minor, H. 349: I. Andante
(01:31)
2 . Capriccio in B Minor, H. 349: II. Allegro molto (03:58)
3 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 2, February. Scherzo (02:42)
4 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 5, May. Frühlingslied (02:28)
5 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 6, Juni. Serenade (04:44)
6 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 9, September. Am Flusse (02:42)
7 . Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87: I. Allegro vigoroso (01:54)
8 . Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87: II. Fuga. Allegro moderato (03:16)
9 . Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op. 108 . (03:56)
10 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 1, In Autumn (02:09)
11 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 2, Phantoms (01:47)
12 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming (04:29)
13 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 4, Fire-Flies (02:48)
14 . Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 2, Notturno (03:58)
15 . Quatre pièces caractéristiques, Op. 5: No. 2, Caprice à la Boléro (03:26)
16 . Quatre pièces caractéristiques, Op. 5: No. 4, Scène fantastique - Le Ballet des revenants (04:12)
17 . Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7: II. Romanze Claire Huangci & Tristan Cornut (03:40)
18 . Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 6, Polonaise (03:13)
19 . Fantasie Nègre No. 2 .in G Minor (06:24)
20 . Meditation (02:15)
21 . Waltz of the Spring Maid (03:12)
22 . Your Hands in Mine (02:59)
23 .Cotton Dance (03:04)
2 . Capriccio in B Minor, H. 349: II. Allegro molto (03:58)
3 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 2, February. Scherzo (02:42)
4 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 5, May. Frühlingslied (02:28)
5 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 6, Juni. Serenade (04:44)
6 . as Jahr, H. 385: No. 9, September. Am Flusse (02:42)
7 . Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87: I. Allegro vigoroso (01:54)
8 . Fantasia Fugata, Op. 87: II. Fuga. Allegro moderato (03:16)
9 . Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother, Op. 108 . (03:56)
10 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 1, In Autumn (02:09)
11 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 2, Phantoms (01:47)
12 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming (04:29)
13 . Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 4, Fire-Flies (02:48)
14 . Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 2, Notturno (03:58)
15 . Quatre pièces caractéristiques, Op. 5: No. 2, Caprice à la Boléro (03:26)
16 . Quatre pièces caractéristiques, Op. 5: No. 4, Scène fantastique - Le Ballet des revenants (04:12)
17 . Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7: II. Romanze Claire Huangci & Tristan Cornut (03:40)
18 . Soirées musicales, Op. 6: No. 6, Polonaise (03:13)
19 . Fantasie Nègre No. 2 .in G Minor (06:24)
20 . Meditation (02:15)
21 . Waltz of the Spring Maid (03:12)
22 . Your Hands in Mine (02:59)
23 .Cotton Dance (03:04)
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