Min Kwon - America/Beautiful (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. America the Beautiful (Arr. for Piano by Samuel Adler)
02. A Celebration of Our Beautiful Nation
03. A Contemplation
04. United Underdog
05. American Coda
06. TBD
07. Oh Beautiful
08. But, Wait a Minute…
09. Sea to Shining Sea
10. Still Beautiful
11. Beauty for All (Or for None at All)
12. Undimmed by Tears
13. No Longer Stain
14. To Be Beautiful
15. America Quite Beautiful

CD2
01. America the Beautiful: Echo Chamber
02. 23 Variations on America
03. Fantasy Variation (The Visible Enemy)
04. American Tableau (Tableau XI for Piano)
05. Playing with Fire
06. New Jersey
07. Ameritango
08. American Toccata
09. America/Desh
10. Liberty in Law
11. Of Liberating Strife
12. Grace
13. Getting the Upper Hand on America
14. O genus infelix humanum
15. Undiscovered
16. Four Windows into America
17. No Man’s Land
18. Meditation

CD3
01. Crown Thy Good
02. Endeavor
03. Look Up America
04. Passage
05. Air of America
06. Epilogue: End of the Dream
07. America the Dream
08. America the Polarized
09. My America
10. Amber (Variation)
11. America, the Changing Same
12. America the Beautiful… Devastatingly Quiet…
13. Qaddiš
14. Praying for a Sign
15. Halcyon Skies
16. Amrika
17. America, the Work in Progress

CD4
01. Refine
02. Habanera
03. America The
04. Kintsugi
05. You Are Welcome Here
06. Through Eyes That See Quite Clearly…
07. A Most Glorious Grace
08. America Summer 2020 (The Beautiful)
09. Beauty of America
10. Endure
11. Crown of Brotherhood
12. America, Never Beautiful
13. America Slow Dance
14. 12-Tone America
15. Three Places in America (Less than a Mile from Each Other)
16. Aramaic Fuel Tube

CD5
01. Purple Mountains
02. America the Beautiful - Sotto voce
03. Two Variations: …Alabaster Cities… –
04. …God Mend Thine Every Flaw…
05. Woven, Gesture, Flow
06. Fusion
07. Thine Every Flaw
08. The Beautiful
09. Swinging in My Yard (An American Reverie)
10. Under the Same Flag
11. A Fantasy on America
12. America America America America America
13. In Darkness Veiled
14. Melting!
15. Latin, America Beautiful
16. America the Beautiful (Arr. for Piano by Min Kwon)



America/Beautiful is a five-volume collection conceived, commissioned, and performed by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, comprising 76 new piano works by American composers inspired by “America the Beautiful.”

Kwon brings together a sweeping range of individual voices into a unified musical vision that invites listeners to experience the United States as a living, evolving cultural idea. The result is a deeply moving musical tapestry – a sonic portrait of the nation in all its complexity. Heard as a whole, the collection resists a single narrative, instead offering diverse perspectives that question and re-imagine the American experiment, bound together by the credo of E pluribus unum (out of many, one). As Kwon observes, “In spite of all the difficulties we face, there is still profound beauty, humanity, and possibility in this country.” As the ideal partner for this bold, ambitious, and one-of-a-kind artistic undertaking, Delos celebrates the United States Semiquincentennial with this collection.