A two-movement instrumental suite from the documentary oratorio And Then I Remember. Mvt. 1 with Third Sound, Mvt. 1 with Ben Grow, conductor

Stories From My Grandmother

Live recording with Laura Mercado-Wright, mezzo, Alma Liebrecht, horn, Karen Ouzounian, cello and Lembit Beecher, piano.

Three Immigrant Songs

“These Are Not Estonian Flowers” was written in response to Alma Thomas’s painting “Breeze Rustling Through Fall Flowers.”

Live recording from the October 10, 2021 premiere by the Aizuri Quartet.

More info: http://lembitbeecher.com/site/music/these-are-not-estonian-flowers/

These Are Not Estonian Flowers (live)

live performance by:
James Garlick, violin
Richard O'Neill, viola

more about the piece: https://lembitbeecher.com/site/music/the-happiness-of-two-salmon-returning-home/

The Happiness of Two Salmon Returning Home

A two-movement instrumental suite from the documentary oratorio And Then I Remember. Ben Grow, conductor

Stories From My Grandmother - Mvt. 2: Slow Memory

A two-movement instrumental suite from the documentary oratorio And Then I Remember. Live performance by Third Sound, April 11, 2023

Stories From My Grandmother - Mvt. 1: It was like a, like a lightning

Three Immigrant Songs - Mvt. 3: Song From Home

Three Immigrant Songs - Mvt. 2: Angel Island

Three Immigrant Songs - Mvt. 1: Wandering Exile

for solo bassoon
by Lembit Beecher
Premiere performance by Martin Kuuskmann, September 18, 2021 at the NYC Estonian House

Songs from the Family Archive

NYPR

Kalevipoeg in California

for chamber orchestra and recorded audio (sampled interviews)
poetry by Chris Santiago
interviews of 47 residents of the Twin Cities, reading Chris Santiago's poem and answering questions about what home means to them, by Todd Lawrence and Lembit Beecher

Say Home - Mvt 3 Youth

Excerpt of Mvt. 1 (Letter G - P)and Mvt. 2 (opening) of "The Conference of the Birds" for 18 solo strings