If the name Heinrich von Herzogenberg is not yet familiar, it soon will be, due to the growing revival of his music and the increasing number of recordings made since the 1990s, notably in Germany. But this late nineteenth century composer's reputation may only be minimally enhanced by all the attention that's being paid to his oeuvre; for the ...
Although listed as Piano Concerto No. 5, the Concerto K. 175 is really Mozart's first completely independent composition of this form -- the first four concertos were actually arrangements of works given to him by other composers. Along with this concerto, pianist Matthias Kirschnereit performs the subsequent K. 238 and K. 246 concertos on Volume ...
As in previous the volume of Arte Nova's collection of the complete Mozart piano concertos, pianist Matthias Kirschnereit returns for another set of perfectly adequate performances in Vol. 5 featuring the K. 413 and K. 482 concertos. No real faults can be found in this recording. Kirschnereit's playing is clean and articulate -- nimble in fast ...
The excavation of the symphonists who labored in Beethoven's shadow has yielded some worthwhile music (by Kalliwoda, for example), and plenty more music that was set aside with the crystallization of the canon is on the way. Here Germany's North German Radio Philharmonic (NDR Radiophilharmonie) offers music by Friedrich Ernest Fesca (1789-1826), a ...
Best-known for the popular overture to his opera Donna Diana, which was frequently recorded and programmed on light music concerts of the 1950s, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek is nonetheless an almost totally neglected composer whose rich, post-Romantic music fell out of fashion by the mid-twentieth century and has stayed virtually unknown until the ...
Although the "golden age" of operetta has come and gone, composer Franz Lehár isn't in any real danger of being neglected so long as The Merry Widow continues to tread the boards of the world's stages. But as his first major "hit," and as an operetta stylistically limited by the constraints of contemporary fashion and tradition, The Merry Widow ...
If you love the symphonies of Louis Spohr, George Onslow, and Ferdinand Ries, this recording of symphonies by Friedrich Ernst Fesca is the disc for you. Composed between 1809 and 1816 and both in D major, Fesca's Symphony No. 2, Op. 10, and Symphony No. 3, Op. 13, are written in a style that falls between late Haydn and early Schubert, with ...
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