Loewe: Complete Piano Music Vol. 3

Nicholson, Linda

TOCC 0690

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.

Works:

•Loewe, C: Vier Phantasien, Op. 137
• Loewe, C: Der barmherzige Bruder, Op. 28 – Eine Tondichtung für das Pianoforte: Andante con moto
• Loewe, C: Grande Sonate Élégique, Op. 32
• Loewe, C: Three Lieder transcribed for piano solo by Linda Nicholson

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Toccata Classics

29-11-2023

5060113446909