Linda Nicholson - Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (First Recordings) (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 1, Der Abschied des Auswanderers vom Vaterland
02. 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 2, Meerfahrt des Auswanderers
03. 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 3, Die Prairie
04. 4 Phantasien, Op. 137: No. 4, Die neue Heimath des Auswanderers
05. Der barmherzige Bruder, Op. 28
06. Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: I. Grave con moto - Allegro
07. Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: II. Andante
08. Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: III. Presto
09. Grande sonate élégique in F Minor, Op. 32: IV. Finale. Presto con fuoco - Allegro
10. Gesammelte Lieder, Gesänge, Romanzen und Balladen, Op. 9, Book 3 "Gesänge der Sehnsucht": No. 5, Sehnsucht (Arr. for Piano by Linda Nicholson)
11. Die schlanke Wasserlilie
12. Stille Liebe (Arr. for Piano by Linda Nicholson)

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.

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