Ernst: Erlkönig - Le Carnaval de Venise

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 26, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ERNST, HEINRICH WILHELM
    • PERFORMER
      Spacek, Back
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 26, 2013
    • UPC
      747313257577
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572575
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Le roi des aulnes, Op. 26 (after Schubert's Erlkönig)

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    2. Variations brilliantes sur un Theme de Rossini, Op. 4

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Gordon Back

    3. Etude No. 1 in F Major: Rondino scherzo

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    4. Etude No. 2 in A Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    5. Etude No. 3 in E Major: Terzetto

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    6. Etude No. 4 in C Major: Allegro risoluto

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    7. Etude No. 5 in E-Flat Major: Air de Ballet

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    8. Etude No. 6 in G Major, "Die letze Rose" (The Last Rose of Summer): Moderato

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    9. L'art de phraser, Op. 16: No. 14 in D-Flat Major (arr. H.W. Ernst for violin and piano)

      Composer: Stephen Heller

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Gordon Back

    10. Élégie sur la mort d'un objet cheri (with Introduction by L. Spohr)

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Gordon Back

    11. Trio pour un violin

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček

    12. Le Carnaval de Venise, Op. 18, "Variations burlesques sur la canzonetta Cara mia mamma"

      Composer: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Gordon Back


The Moravian Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst is a dazzling example of the nineteenth-century violinist-composer, of whom the greatest was Ernst's sometime rival, Paganini. Indeed it was the Italian who persuaded Ernst to follow the life of a touring virtuoso, in which role he was to perform with the greatest musicians in Europe, earning the admiration of men such as Chopin and Mendelssohn. The Elegie sur la mort d'un objet cheri, mentioned by Tolstoy in the Kreutzer Sonata, was one of the best-known violin works of the century, and the Polyphonic Studies offer a compendium of violin technique on a par with the works of Paganini himself.