Famous as a virtuoso performer, teacher, and composer for the piano, Xaver Scharwenka wrote little for orchestra. This CD presents his three purely orchestral works: the Overture (1869), the Symphony in C minor, Op. 60 (1882), and the Andante religioso, Op. 46a (1881). Because his energies were directed almost exclusively to the keyboard, ...
It may be that someone buying this album and expecting something like excerpts from Carmen played on the piano would be disappointed, for there are just a few examples of the fiery side of Spanish music included. Most of the pieces evoke, in the words of annotator Bruce Morrison, the "music of the night" of Spain, and of the Iberian peninsula's ...
Is there really another volume in Hyperion's series The Romantic Piano Concerto? Are there really any more unrecorded Romantic piano concertos? Apparently. Here are Xaver Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor and Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4. But that's not the amazing thing. The amazing thing is that Scharwenka's First and ...
If one wants to hear third-rate Romantic piano concertos, this is the way to hear them: full-bodied, hot-blooded, and totally without inhibitions. That the First Concerto of Xaver Scharwenka and the Fourth Concerto of Anton Rubinstein are third-rate is hard to dispute. Both are well-composed in the height of late nineteenth century Romantic style ...
Henry Wood was anything but understated in his orchestration endeavors, and for those who find Leopold Stokowski's orchestrations of similar repertoire lacking in color and excitement, Wood's are the ones to hear. To say they are extravagant in their employment of the full panoply of the modern symphony orchestra is to enormously understate the ...
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