Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364, would appear to be an immensely hard act to follow when it comes to concert pieces for violin, viola, and orchestra. Or so it would seem after listening to this album of works for the genre by composers Britten, Bruch, and Benjamin. None of the pieces heard here are performed with any regularity in modern ...
Once there was a time when recordings of Schoenberg's orchestral arrangement of Brahms' G minor Piano Quartet were rare. But that time ended with the dawn of the digital age, and by the start of the twenty-first century, recordings of Schoenberg's wild and wooly arrangement have become almost commonplace. But coupling Schoenberg's arrangement with ...
What we have here is an Austrian violinist with a lower Silesian orchestra under a Latvian-German conductor performing a violin concerto by an Austro-Hungarian and a double concerto by a German living in Austria. In other words, what we have here is a truly central European recording featuring young performers who play as if to the manor born. ...
Violinist Benjamin Schmid's choice of repertoire for this Oehms Classics album is perfectly selected for a number of reasons. For starters, the chronological sequence from Wieniawski to Szymanowski to Lutoslawski brilliantly showcases the often underappreciated lineage of great Polish composers. The works of these three giants are ideally suited ...
Leo Smit -- not to be confused with the American composer/pianist of that name -- was one of the brightest, most talented, and accomplished Dutch composers of the first half of the twentieth century. That his music has a strong French influence is not by accident; he was already well acquainted with modern French music before he moved to Paris in ...
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