BETH ANDERSON (1950):

 

Swales & Angels

 

March Swale (2000)

 

The Rubio String Quartet

Dirk Van de Velde - violin

Dirk Van den Hauwe - violin

Marc Sonnaert - viola

Ilia Laporev - cello

 

Pennyroyal Swale (1985)

 

The Rubio String Quartet. New Mexico Swale (1995).

Andrew Bolotowsky - flute/piccolo

Dirk Van den Hauwe - violin

Marc Sonnaert - viola

Ilia Laporev - cello

David Rozenblatt - percussion

Gary M. Schneider, conductor

 

The Angel (1988)

Jessica Marsten - soprano

The Rubio String Quartet

Joseph Kubera - celeste

André Tarantiles - harp

Gary M. Schneider, conductor

 

January Swale (1996)

The Rubio String Quartet

 

Rosemary Swale (1986)

The Rubio String Quartet. Piano Concerto (1997)

Joseph Kubera - piano

Rubio String Quartet

Darren Campbell - string bass

David Rozenblatt - marimba/percussion

Gary M. Schneider - conductor

 

Beth Anderson writes chamber music of great beauty, generally simple tonality, and luminous textures. She’s adopted a deceptively unmilitant motto—“To make something beautiful is revolutionary”—and describes herself oxymoronically on her web page as a “neo-romantic, avant-garde composer,” words that wouldn’t fit together for any other composer. Her chamber music betrays its twentieth-century roots in its pervasive use of collage. Her preferred form, and one she invented herself, is the swale: a term for a meadow or marsh in which a lot of plants grow together, and by extension a musical piece in which diverse musical ideas and even styles grow side by side

 

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