Oliver Triendl, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt & Ernst Theis - Luise Adolpha le Beau: Symphony op.41 · Piano Concerto op.37 · Overture op.23 (2026) [Hi-Res]

Luise Adolpha le Beau also belongs to the ranks of female composers who remained undeterred by the much-cited headwinds of the “male-dominated field.” Born in Rastatt, Baden, as the only child of an officer active in the arts and his wife, who was no less passionate about the arts, she enjoyed a musical education from an early age, in which the Karlsruhe court Kapellmeister Wilhelm Kalliwoda played a significant role. Later, in Munich, she was taken on as a private student by Joseph Rheinberger, and her compositional output expanded steadily, a development reflected both in the broadening of her musical horizons and in the diversity of her activities and the widespread recognition of her works. This selection introduces Mademoiselle Le Beau with a spring-like overture as well as two full-scale orchestral works: the piano concerto, whose beguiling middle movement leads into a finale that might well have been penned by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Klein-Zack, and the symphony, which, particularly in the scherzo, convincingly draws on the quintessential virtues of the early Romantics. A successful portrait.