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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 28 November 2018, 22:54

Title: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 28 November 2018, 22:54
...forthcoming from MDG, coupled with the Viola Sonata - the latter evidently a historic recording featuring the composer. The soloist in the VC is the great Ulf Hoelscher:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/violin-concerto-viola-sonata/hnum/8823389 (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/violin-concerto-viola-sonata/hnum/8823389)
Title: Re: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 29 November 2018, 00:00
neat. I've skimmed a string quartet available at IMSLP but am not much familiar with his muse. Thanks!
Title: Re: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:55
We've had the same performance of the VC in our downloads section for quite a while. It'll be disappearing pretty sharpish...
Title: Re: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:56
...in fact it's now gone. The link was broken anyway.
Title: Re: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:47
Great to have a commercial recording of this fine work.
Title: Re: Karl Klingler Violin Concerto in E (1907)
Post by: Alan Howe on Sunday 23 December 2018, 22:22
The VC is indeed a beautiful - and virtuoso - piece. My reservation would be that it is melodically rather dull. Klingler was evidently intent on writing a concerto à la Brahms, but he didn't really have the compositional resources to produce a work of that status and standing. So: enjoyable, often very impressive and with much beauty. But no masterpiece. IMHO.