"When the ci-hitty gets into a bu-hoys sy-hist-em, he loses his a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry." So intones W.C. Fields in his Yukon-based Victorian absurdist two-reeler The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933). However, if the city you lived in was Salzburg, Austria, the idea of "a-hankerin' for the cou-huntry" was a popular one, and Salzburg's court ...
Wolfgang Brunner, pianist and director of the Salzburger Hofmusik, put together this Friends of Schubert collection of music by a circle of composers from the Carthinia province of Austria who actively promoted the greatness of Schubert's music after his death. He chose a variety of historic instruments and a variety of recording venues (maybe ...
Insofar as it can be said to have one, the purpose of this disc is to make the name Anton Diabelli mean more than merely the fellow who had the foresight to get Schubert's publishing rights and who once hired Beethoven to write a set of variations on his own innocuous waltz theme. For those willing to venture into nearly unknown repertoire, this ...
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