Musician's or Publisher's Notes Samuel
Barber was said to compose piano music with "an extremely natural
feeling" for the instrument (in pianistVladimir Horowitz's opinion, he was the
only American composer to do so). The familiar Nocturne form is here infused
with haunting harmonies and scintillating figures. It
is labeled "homage to John Field", the inventor of the form but sounds more
like a Chopin nocturne. Perhaps it is Barber's way of acknowledging his
appreciation of both composers. Hayk Arsenyan
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Samuel Barber
Nocturne op. 33 Play
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Musician's or Publisher's Notes
Samuel Barber was said to compose piano music with "an extremely natural feeling" for the instrument (in pianist Vladimir Horowitz's opinion, he was the only American composer to do so). The familiar Nocturne form is here infused with haunting harmonies and scintillating figures. It is labeled "homage to John Field", the inventor of the form but sounds more like a Chopin nocturne. Perhaps it is Barber's way of acknowledging his appreciation of both composers. Hayk Arsenyan
More music by Samuel Barber
Excursions Op 20 No 3
Canzone
Sea-Snatch, from Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Adagio, from String Quartet No. 2
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Canzone)
String Quartet, Op. 11
A green lowland of pianos, from Three Songs, Op.45
Excursions, Op. 20
Sonata in e-flat minor, Op. 26
At Saint Patrick's Purgatory, from Hermit Songs, Op. 29
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Aria di Figaro
Adagio of Spartacus
Poem
In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt Suite
Variations on a Nocturne by Chopin
Fantasie, K. 396
Sonata No. 3 in b minor, Op. 58
Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major
Sonata No. 21 in g minor
Piano Sonata Op. 26, 1st movement
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