Laura Vinciguerra, Paolo Franchesini, Roberto Petrocchi - Poenitz: Works for Harp (2010)

Tracklist

01. Todestanz der Willys, Op. 24a
02. Italienische Romanze, Op. 27
03. Drei leichte Stücke, Op. 29: I. Ständchen
04. Drei leichte Stücke, Op. 29: II. Die Spieldose
05. Drei leichte Stücke, Op. 29: III. Wiengenliedchen
06. Romanze für Harfe
07. Romanze für Violin und Harfe
08. Klänge aus der Alhambra, Fantasie, Op. 67
09. Gebet, Op. 67
10. Zwei Salonstücke für Violin und Harfe, Op. 26: I. Im Frühling
11. Zwei Salonstücke für Violin und Harfe, Op. 26: II. Venetianisches Gondellied
12. Nordische Ballade, Op. 33
13. Capriccio for Clarinet and Harp in B Major, Op. 73
14. Elegie for Franz Poenitz, Op. 17a (Arr. by A. Holy)



Franz Poenitz (1850-1912) was born Franz von Burkovitz, had a difficult childhood, fleeing from his father with his sister when he was very young. His mother had died in childbirth, and her sister took the children in. her husband the conductor Heinrich Poenitz quickly recognised Franz’s talent, and his father taught him violin, and he went on to become one of the most important composers for the harp. In 1876 he became one of the ‘Bayreuth Seven’, the group of harpists at the new Festspielhaus built to perform the works of Wagner in. He was a man of wide interests, skiing, hunting, angling and painting. He died in Berlin of complications following an appendectomy.

This release contains several works receiving their premiere recordings as well as a touching tribute by Alfred Holy (1866 - 1948) one of his colleagues in the Royal Court Opera in Berlin, a company Poenitz had been a member of for 50 years.

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