Reinecke / Rummel / Kruger - Complete Works for Cello & Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Petite Suite 2. Marche Écossaise Sur Un Thème Populaire 3. Six Épigraphes Antiques 4. Première Suite D'orchestre

Ferdinand Ries's life and work are inextricably intertwined with those of his friend and teacher Beethoven, and both Cello Sonatas, Op. 20 and 21 were dedicated to cellist Bernhard Romberg, who performed regularly with Beethoven. Ries exploits Romberg's extraordinary sound quality in the lower register of the cello in music that resonates with references to colleagues such as Haydn and Hummel. Ries's final Cello Sonata, Op. 125, completes a triptych that richly deserves it's place in the cello repertoire. This joins an ongoing program of releases of music by neglected composer Ferdinand Ries. This has included an edition of his complete piano sonatas and sonatinas played by Susan Kagan, to whom Inchclassical music lovers owe a debt of gratitude for rescuing these attractive keyboard creations from the undeserved obscurity that they've been languishing in for the past two centuries or so.Inch (Halesowen News) Acclaimed cellist Martin Rummel has recorded widely for labels including Paladino Music and Capriccio. His recordings for Naxos include works for cello and piano by Joseph Merk and Reinhold Gliere. Recordings by pianist Stefan Stroissnig include Beethoven's Second and Fourth Piano Concertos with the RSO Wien conducted by Heinrich Schiff on the Gramola Records tag, and his recording of the Four Impromptus Op. 90 by Franz Schubert and the Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt was awarded the 'Pasticcio Prize' by Austrian Radio. Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro Con Brio 2. II. Adagio 3. III. Polonaise. Allegretto Moderato 4. I. Allegro 5. II. Andantino Quasi Allegretto 6. III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio 7. IV. Rondo Allegro Ma Non Troppo 8. I. Grave - Allegro 9. II. Larghetto Con Moto 10. III. Rondo Allegretto

Ferdinand Ries is remembered as Beethoven's one-time pupil, secretary and copyist, but the discovery of his many compositions showed him to be a forward-looking composer in his own right. The 1799 Cello Sonata in C minor is among the first of it's genre, the 15-year-old Ries already showing remarkable talent in it's 'Sturm und Drang' moods. The Trio, Op. 63 was admired in it's day for it's ingenuity of modulations' and fashionable London society lapped up the exotic themes of works such as Introduction and a Russian Dance and the virtuosic Trois Airs Russes Varies. Album Tracks 1. Introduction and a Russian Dance, Op. 113, No. 1 (1823) 2. Cello Sonata in C minor, Woo 2 (1799) 3. Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in E Flat Major, Op. 63 (1815) 4. Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 34 (1823)