Listening to the music on this two-disc set, you may wonder why the chamber works of Swedish Romantic composer Franz Berwald are not more frequently recorded. It can't be because of his themes, which are strong, sweet, and distinctive; or because of his harmonies, which are powerful, rich, and cogent; or because of his forms, which are innovative, ...
Collections of the symphonies of Swedish composer Franz Berwald have always been few and far between. Indeed, there have only ever been six sets of the complete symphonies in the whole history of recordings and, needless to say, most of them have been by Swedish conductors. The reason for this, of course, is that Berwald's symphonies are virtually ...
Swedish composer Franz Berwald is one of the most remarkable figures in early romanticism, a composer whose work significantly foreshadowed later developments in music; he paid a high price for his innovations through the enmity and ignorance of his colleagues, and only found recognition at the very end of a long and inauspicious career as a ...
In hard times, everyone is looking for the killer deal. In respect to wind chamber music of the early romantic period, one could hardly do better than with Brilliant Classics' Romantic Ensembles, a six-CD box set that contains much of the major wind literature from the first half of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth ...
Good but by no means great, convincing but by no means compelling, David Montgomery and the Jena Philharmonic's cycle of the four symphonies of Swedish composer Franz Berwald is only for listeners who already have several recordings of these works. Montgomery portrays Berwald as a lesser Mendelssohn or Schumann, a Romantic with plenty of energy ...
Naxos, having already contributed efforts to a cycle of the Franz Berwald symphonies with Okko Kamu at the helm, now takes on several of his tone poems with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra. Whereas many orchestral tone poems are seen as secondary in importance within the works of composers best known as symphonists, Swedish composer Berwald lavished ...
The Berlin Philharmonic Octet is one among several chamber ensembles that is based out of the Berlin Philharmonic, although it is among the most prominent, widely traveled, and enduring of such groups. This Eterna Collection issue, Das Berliner Oktett spielt Werke von Conradin Kreutzer und Franz Berwald, was recorded in 1979 and first released on ...
Berlin Classics has assembled an inexpensive and varied collection of greatest hits by Scandinavian Romantic and post-Romantic composers, some very well-known (Grieg and Sibelius) and some more obscure (Berwald, Svendsen, and Sinding). In addition to the diversity of composers, the collection includes a variety of genres, including tone poems, ...
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