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Concerto

  • Violin Concertos by Johannes Brahms; Amanda Maier; Julius Rontgen

    Jun 14th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Amanda Maier, CD Review, Cecilia Zilliacus, Classical music, Concerto, db Productions, Johannes Brahms, Julius Rontgen, Kristiina Poska, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Romantic period, Vasteras Sinfonietta

    This release brings together three violin concertos by three close friends — Johannes Brahms, Julius Rontgen, and his wife, Amanda Maier. Rontgen and Maier were both talented violinists. The couple performed together, and even composed together. Brahms would visit the Rontgen home when in town. And Brahms and Rontgen gave public concerts together in Amsterdam. […]

  • Eleanor Alberga Violin Concertos – collaborative classics

    May 10th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Eleanor Alberga, Female composer, Joseph Swensen, Lyrita, Thomas Bowes

    Eleanor Alberga and her husband Thomas Bowes make quite a team. As the piano/violin duo Double Exposure they toured and performed together. And they frequently performed Alberga’s music. The blend of personal and artistic intimacy between the two inspired both. Case in point, the two violin concertos featured on this release. In 2001 Alberga chose […]

  • Michael Haydn Concertos Worth Reviving

    Apr 13th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Andrea Bertalan, Capella Savaria, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Hungaroton, Michael Haydn, Noteworthy Release, Zsolt Kalló

    Michael Haydn was a great composer — just not as great as his older brother Franz Joseph. The two were both highly regarded during their lifetimes. But over time Franz Joseph’s popularity completely eclipsed Michael’s. To be fair, choral music was Michael Haydn’s forte. But his relatively few orchestral works are more than historical curiosities. […]

  • Eduard Franck Piano Concertos Receive Their Due

    Apr 5th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, CPO, Eduard Franck, Fawzi Haimor, Georg Michael Garu, Romantic period, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Eduard Franck was a pianist and composer, active in the late 1800s. He studied with Felix Mendelssohn. Franck then went on to have a successful career as a concert pianist and pedagogue. Robert Schumann thought highly of his music. So why isn’t it better known? Franck was something of a perfectionist and continually tinkered with […]

  • Kaveli Aho Double and Triple Concertos – Definitive Performances

    Mar 22nd, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, BIS, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Kaveli Aho, Olari Elts, Orchestral music, SACD, Storioni Trio

    Finnish composer Kaveli Aho is a symphonist. His ideas seem best-suited to large-scale works. Among those large-scale works are 36 concertos, including the two on this recording. And within the subset of concertos, these two are also large-scale. One is a double concerto, the other a triple concerto. Aho composed his double concerto for cor […]

  • Anne-Marie McDermott brings new insights to Mozart concertos

    Mar 21st, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Anne-Marie McDermott, Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    For volume four, Anne-Marie McDermott presents two contrasting Mozart piano concertos. And the contrast goes beyond just the concertos. The supplied cadenzas also represent two very different interpretations of Mozart’s music. The Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 is one of Mozart’s longest concertos. And many consider it one of his greatest. […]

  • Leila Schayegh completes LeClair violin concerto series

    Jan 25th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Baroque music, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Glossa, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, Leila Schayegh, Noteworthy Release

    This completes Leila Schayegh’s traversal of Jean-Marie Leclair Op. 7 and Op. 10 concertos. LeClair was one of the premier violinists of the early 1700s. He’s credited with founding the French school of violin-playing. Bottom line: LeClair was a monster player — and he expected anyone performing his concertos to be the same! As with […]

  • Franz Dimler Clarinet Concertos close to Mozart

    Jan 24th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Concerto, CPO, Franz Anton Dimler, Johannes Willg, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, Nikolaus Friedrich

    Franz Dimler was a talented guy. He was hired as a French horn player at Mannheim in 1767. In 1778 he joined the Munich court as a double bass player. And all the while he composed: symphonies, concertos, quartets, and operettas. After his death in 1827, Dimler’s music lapsed into obscurity. So I’m happy to […]

  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel Concertos – light and airy

    Jan 11th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bettina Messerschmidt, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, CPO, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Merseburger Mofmusik, Michael Schönheit

    Johann Wilhelm Hertel is classed today as a transitional composer. He was active in the mid-1700s and wrote in the Empfindsamer Stil. The idea behind this “emotional style” was to express natural emotion. This was a departure from the formalized — and focussed — emotional expression of the Baroque. From the Empfindsamer Stil, Classical Era composers would go […]

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