At odds with bourgeois Parisian tastes for opera and parlor music, Louise Farrenc pursued instead the ideals of German absolute music, as exemplified by Beethoven. The three works presented here were remarkable achievements for a woman composing in an antipathetic environment, though French aversion to German forms mattered more at the time than ...
While this is a fairly random selection of the chamber works of French composer Louise Farrenc, it is also a fairly convincing selection. The Nonette for winds and strings is a warm and charming work, the Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano is a lush and soulful work, the Variations concertantes for violin and piano is a vigorous and virtuosic ...
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