Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838): Klavierkonzerte opp.123 & 151

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  • Artist: Christopher Hinterhuber, New Zealand SO, Grodd
  • Label: Naxos , DDD, 2005
  • Order number: 8914639
  • Release date: 31.10.2005
  1. 1 Allegro Con Moto Start
  2. 2 Larghetto Con Moto Start
  3. 3 Rondo: Allegro Molto Start
  4. 4 Allegro Con Spirito Start
  5. 5 Larghetto Quasi Andante Start
  6. 6 Rondo: Alegro Vivace Start

Product Information

The eight piano concertos of Beethoven's friend and pupil Ferdinand Ries stand alongside those of Hummel as the most important works of their kind from the early 19th Century. Intensely lyrical and yet displaying at times a rugged Beethovenian power, Ries's concertos are works of impressive musical stature. This world première recording features the Concerto in C major composed in 1806 shortly after Ries completed his studies in Vienna with Beethoven, and the majestic Concerto in A flat 'Gruss an den Rhein', written twenty years later on his return to the Rhineland, which looks forward to the piano writing of Chopin.

Press comments

FonoForum 02 / 06: "Das Konzert op. 123 ist ein majestätisches, wahrhaft großes Konzert im ausgereiften klassischen Stil. Es hält für den Pianisten viele Möglichkeiten zur Darstellung seiner Virtuosität bereit: rauschende Akkordfolgen, Oktavketten, große Intervallsprünge, blühendes Rankenwerk - Angebote, die Christopher Hinterhuber freudig annimmt und in ein pianistisches Feuerwerk verwandelt."

EUR 7.99*

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