Beethoven / Gieseking - Klavierkonzert 5 Wiener - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Walter Braunfels studied law and economics at the university of Munich until, after seeing a performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, he decided to shift his focus to music. He went on to study with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna before returning to Munich to study composition with Felix Mottl and Ludwig Thuille. His earliest success came with the opera Die Vogel. With the rise of the Nazis to power, however, he was dismissed from his positions and listed as being half-Jewish. Luckily, the war passed peacefully for his family, he returned to the public eye after the war was over. On this , the Munchner Rundfunkorchester with violinist Henry Raudales, violist Norbert Merkl, and hornists Karl Reitmayer and Marc Ostertag present Braunfel's String Quintet in F sharp minor in it's version for String Orchestra, and his Sinfonia Concertante op. 68 for violin, viola, 2 horns, and string orchestra. These are world premiere recordings.

Beethoven / Gieseking - Klaviersonaten 8916172 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2012

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