Solistes Europeens, Luxembourg, Christoph König - Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 (2018) CD-Rip

Pursuing a musical career was no easy matter for women in the nineteenth century, but Louise Farrenc s character and determination resulted in her becoming a respected part of the European scene, and the first ever female senior professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire. Farrenc s Second Symphony owes something to Mozartian models, with imaginative writing for winds and hints of Beethoven. The Third Symphony is notable for a richness of harmonic writing which, in its color and lyricism, is reminiscent of Mendelssohn and Schumann.