Classical Music

Classical Music

Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860) wrote song movements for more than 300 works and is thus still a household name especially for choir singers. During his lifetime he was not only considered a competent composer and arranger, but also an excellent music teacher. His arrangements of Christmas and Advent carols, with their pleasant simplicity, are also immediately accessible to the listener and develop an irresistible magic in a completely natural way. The Remigius Kammerchor Nagold under the direction of Anna-Katharina Kalmbach performs on this recording with young voices, which present themselves unaffected, but also technically well-founded.

Centered around Richard Wagner’s death in Venice, this program, put together by Lajos Lencses, views Venice in a quiet and somber way, rather than the typical intensity associated with the city’s carnival.; Works from Liszt, Dubois, Grandval, Mahler, and Wagner himself are featured.+ The Budapest Chamber Academy, conducted by Geza Gemesi is the performing ensemble for this release, with outstanding soloists Lajos Leneses and Leo Leneses performing on oboe and cello, respectively.

Classical Music

Classical Music

This album draws on the original performance practices of Franz Schubert, as it is historically proven that the composer played the guitar and frequently accompanied his songs.; This album also features aus der Sammlung “Bardenklange” op. 13 by fellow composer Johann Kaspar Mertz.; These outstanding lieder are performed here by soprano Rosina Sonnenschmidt, baritone Thomas Pfeiffer, and guitarist Harald Knauss.

Born on June 29th, 1864 in the small village of Kohlberg in Upper Palatinate, Anton Beer-Walbrunn hails from the same area as the composers Christoph Willibald Gluck and Max Reger. He taught composition, counterpoint, theory of harmony as well as the piano and was acknowledged as a teacher of great popularity. As a composer whose style was greatly influenced by the classic and romantic tradition, but who also took up modern ideas in the music of the turn of the 19th century, he created numerous works for almost all musical genres. Hanns-Friedrich Kaiser dedicates himself to the organ works of the composer. Hanns-Friedrich Kaiser began his musical training as a choirboy during his school days. After graduating he studied organ and church music at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Munich, completing his studies with honors. At his numerous organ concerts, he has emerged as an outstanding interpreter, especially of Reger organ music.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Together with Op. 150, the Violin Duos Op. 148 and 153 form Spohr's last cycle in this genre. It is as if Spohr, whose last published compositions included the new duos, once again wanted to show all his ability to write large-scale music with the limited instrumentation. Ursula Schoch and Tjeerd Toch are both members of the famous Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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Bayer Records releases here a world premiere recording: Angelika Huber and Kilian Sprau recorded songs and Shakespeare sonnets by Anton Beer Walbrunn. (Bayer)

This double album brings an extensive project to a close: the recording of all the Lied works for voice and piano by Anton Beer-Walbrunn, complemented by world premiere recordings by his composition students Wilhelm Furtwängler and Josua Benjamin Carnap (a half-brother of the philosopher Rudolf Carnap). Eichendorff settings run like a thread through the song oeuvre of the three artists, who are to be helped to a new perception with this recording.

The late Romantic composer Anton Beer-Walbrunn, for many years a professor at the Munich Academy of Music, created convincing works for solo piano, ranging from small character pieces to large-scale sonata form, which this recording fortunately brings back into the public eye. As the culmination of a whole series of piano compositions, the composer succeeded in 1915 with his "Fantasy Sonata for Piano in F-sharp Minor" op. 58, an impressive, full-blown work. The title of the album alludes to the Adagio "In memoriam" op. 57, with which Beer-Walbrunn created a musical memorial to his relatives and friends who died in the First World War. In complete contrast, the character pieces op. 56 and 67 appear as delightful miniatures that inspire with their richness of ideas and colors.