761203515226

Friedrich Gernsheim: Piano Concerto, Op. 16; Cello Concerto, Op. 78; Zu Einem Drama, Op. 82

Oliver Triendl; Alexander Hulshoff; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz; Hermann Baumer

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Format: CD

Cat No: 555152-2

Release Date:  07 March 2025

Label:  Cpo - Full Price / CPO

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  761203515226

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

Composer/Series:  Friedrich Gernsheim

  • Description

    The once highly esteemed composer, conductor and teacher Friedrich Gernsheim can certainly be described as a 'missing link', because he managed the feat of forming friendly ties with both Johannes Brahms and his antipode Max Bruch without falling between two stools as a two-bit plagiarist. Whenever his music seems to lean towards the classicist from Hamburg or towards the more rhapsodic composer from the Rhineland, it is actually expressing its own distinctive character. The eloquent piano concerto's mode of expression with its wonderfully voluptuous dialogues is similar to that of the internationally celebrated concerto that Bruch completed in exactly the same year, 1868; the austere, concise cello concerto of 1903 and the tone poem Zu einem Drama from around the same period evoke moods that one only reaches after a very personal journey. Impressive!