Release Date: 01 November 2019
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113445285
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: Hermann Grädener
Description
The German-born, Vienna-based Hermann Grädener (1844–1929) is yet another composer whose music, esteemed in its own time, has since slipped between the floorboards of history. Yet this first recording of his two violin concertos – substantial works both, downstream from Brahms, and with a hint of Sibelius – prove him to have been one of the more important Romantics, with a strong sense of drama, a sure hand for musical architecture and a natural flair for extended melody. The conductor of this recording, Gottfried Rabl, discovered Grädener’s scores in the secondhand section of a Viennese music-shop many years ago and now, joined by the American violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, they are releasing this first album in a series intended to put Grädener’s music before the modern public for the first time.
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
Duo Praxedis
Choir of Girton College; Cambridge; The Western Wyndes; Felix Elliott; Emily Nott; Gabriel Kennedy;
Chester Concordia Brass Ensemble; Robert Marsh; Philip Rushforth; Richard Lambert
Barcelona Clarinet Players; North Texas Percussion Quartet; Lauren Shuyler; Albert Guinovart; North
