Release Date: 29 January 2021
Label: Cpo - Mid Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 761203533022
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Friedrich Gernsheim
Description
For the biographer Karl Holl chamber music was 'Friedrich Gernsheim’s very special artistic domain'. The composer again and again returned to this field during the course of his life, from his beginnings in Leipzig and Paris to his later Berlin years. The violin sonatas in particular stand out in this group within his oeuvre because they, more than any other genre, document his compositional development. Things began with the fourteen-year-old’s Sonata in E minor, composed for exercise purposes in Leipzig and heard here for the first time on CD, and continued by way of his op. 4, his first full-fledged contribution to this genre, to the mature opp. 50, 64, and 85, with thirteen to fourteen years separating the composition of each of these works. The fourth sonata, a work dedicated to Henri Marteau, may be regarded as the high point of Gernsheim’s duo oeuvre: here his contrapuntal line of thought, something that he had always cultivated, extends over the entire composition.
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Wes Ren Bremen:Cordes
Weinberger
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