Fürstenthal: Chamber Music Vol. 3

The Rossetti Ensemble

TOCC 0577

When Germany invaded Austria in 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, took the path of many Viennese Jews and fled to the United States, where he made his living as an accountant; the fact that he had written music in his youth was soon forgotten. Reconnection, after 35 years, with the woman who had been his first love rekindled both that flame and his urge to compose, and from then on songs and chamber music flowed from his pen, preserving the spirit of fin-de-siècle Vienna under the Californian sun – ‘When I compose, I am back in Vienna’, he explained. He died in November 2016, aged 96, knowing that his lyrical, eloquent music was at last attracting the attention of both musicians and microphones. Fürstenthal was born in 1920, and so Toccata Classics offers this third (of three) volume of his chamber music as a centenary tribute.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Toccata Classics

02-11-2020

5060113445773