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Endangered
Marthanne Verbit
Endangered
Genres: New Age, Classical
 
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Marthanne Verbit writes, Long before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001, I began to think about what role a musician might play in the environmental struggle our planet faces. In choosing to make a recording of five pi...  more »

     
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All Artists: Marthanne Verbit
Title: Endangered
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Albany Records
Release Date: 10/1/2008
Album Type: Single
Genres: New Age, Classical
Styles: Instrumental, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 034061105121

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Marthanne Verbit writes, Long before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001, I began to think about what role a musician might play in the environmental struggle our planet faces. In choosing to make a recording of five piano works from 1997 to 2007, this may be fiddling while Rome burns. However, it can do no harm to share these very personal musical visions of what is endangered, what is now lost, what needs to be celebrated or preserved, and it may give some pleasure. The noted environmentalist William deBuys, who provides an eloquent essay for the booklet says, ...Each piece tells its own deeply felt, inspired story, each in the language of solo piano, which itself is an endangered form...
 

CD Reviews

Marthanne Verbit's "Endangered"
Bruce W. Moss | 11/03/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"As a lifelong pianist myself, I was extremely impressed by the sheer musicality of the selections in this disk [[Endangered: Marthanne Verbit, piano, Albany Records U.S.]] Not always delighted by New Music, I especially found the pieces by Fennimore, Lieverson, Tann and Kennedy moving with Verbit's sensitive play. At times the delicate precision of her fingerwork is stunning, like sonic Belgian lace. The recording itself is first rate audiophile quality. No quibbles."