Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 March 2018, 13:25

Title: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 March 2018, 13:25
...are contained on a remarkably cheap 2-CD set on the Christophorus label. It's been mentioned at UC before, but years ago. So, if you're in the market for some generous-hearted romantic music, pretty well done here, do consider this set:
https://www.mdt.co.uk/rheinberger-symphonic-works-brandenburghisches-staatasorchester-frankfurt-athinaos-christophorus-2cds.html (https://www.mdt.co.uk/rheinberger-symphonic-works-brandenburghisches-staatasorchester-frankfurt-athinaos-christophorus-2cds.html)
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: UnsungMasterpieces on Sunday 04 March 2018, 14:46
Heard the set on Spotify some time ago if I remember correctly, and my personal favourite here probably is Das Tal des Espingo, especially the fragment around the 10-minute mark.

Is anyone aware of any other Liechtensteiner composers from the Romantic era by any chance?
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: eschiss1 on Sunday 04 March 2018, 14:50
Not I. The "Liechtensteiner people" category on IMSLP has no one- Romantic or E-20th-century or Modern- except Rheinberger in it, for that matter.

Monaco has a similarly small population and I've heard of at least one composer from there (Louis Abbiate- we've had two concertos of his uploaded way back when- they were on old LPs, our rules would understandably not allow this now.) (Malta has 10 times the population so is not a good standard of comparison. Anyhow, off-topic. Sorry.)
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: UnsungMasterpieces on Sunday 04 March 2018, 15:59
Except for Rheinberger I do know of 3 other Liechtensteiner composers, and those are all still alive; Jürg Hanselmann, Marco Schädler & Matthias Frommelt.
This is all modern music, which is outside the remit of this forum.
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 March 2018, 16:04
Exactly. Completely irrelevant  >:(
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 04 March 2018, 22:33
Wallenstein is a most entertaining piece. Considerably beyond Mendelssohn/Schumann in idiom - and especially in weight and complexity of orchestration. He'd obviously been listening to others, e.g. Smetana, even Raff.
Title: Re: Rheinberger Orchestral/Choral works
Post by: Ilja on Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:26
... and if you want to hear it, this live performance on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hnIscAao_I) isn't too shabby, played by the Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein under Florian Krumpöck.