Rheinberger: Complete Violin Sonatas

Barbareschi, Piero;
Schrott, Thomas

95635

When a composer is as well-known as Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901), it’s extraordinary to think that there remain first recordings to be made of substantial parts of their catalogue. Yet this album presents the premiere on CD of two highly appealing Romantic violin sonatas which fill out our understanding of Rheinberger’s diverse output and deserve to stand alongside many more frequently played works in the genre. Even if Rheinberger is chiefly remembered for his organ and choral music, he wrote assiduously for the concert hall and especially chamber venues, in a vein that will remind listeners of Mendelssohn, Franck and especially Brahms. The First Sonata in E flat is distinguished by the idyllic character of its central slow movement, and by the thrilling whirl of its Tarantella finale. It is in the later E minor Sonata that we find the kind of expansive approach to melody and form which was to prove so influential on a generation of composers through Rheinberger’s work as a teacher at the Munich Conservatoire, where his pupils included Engelbert Humperdinck, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Wilhelm Furtwängler.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

5028421956350