Gernsheim: Orchestral Works

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Label
CPO
Release Date
April 4, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Friedrich Gernsheim
    • PERFORMER
      Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz, Alexander Hulshoff, Oliver Triendl
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 04, 2025
    • UPC
      0761203515226
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555152-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    2. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Oliver Triendl

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    4. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    5. II. Andante amoroso e molto sostenuto quasi adagio

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    6. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    7. I. Allegro non troppo - Vivo e con fuoco

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Alexander Hülshoff

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    8. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Alexander Hülshoff

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    9. III. Vivo e con fuoco, come sopra - Animato, ma non troppo

      Composer: Friedrich Gernsheim

      Ensemble: Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz

      Performer: Alexander Hülshoff

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer


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 it's own distinctive character. The eloquent piano concerto's mode of expression with it's 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!