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Diversity is the key word for the 2015 “Martha Argerich and Friends” edition culled from the Lugano Festival’s Progetto Martha Argerich. The legendary pianist participates
Ries’ Concerto Pastoral is delightful, from the woodwind warbling with
This is a lovely program of exciting, colorful music. Ferdinand Ries may not have been a great composer in large forms, such as symphonies and
Ferdinand Ries’ “Farewell to England” Concerto convinces you that he was quite happy to leave. It’s unfailingly pleasant music, well contrasted and very effectively written
Naxos and affiliates are doing the music world a double favor, not just by recording this worthy music in fine performances, but also by publishing
This is just the sort of music that the CPO label specializes in: well-wrought works by a worthy yet relatively obscure composer. Neither piece on
CPO’s series of Ries symphonies comes to a close with these two conventional but attractive works. Although cast in a minor key, don’t expect Beethoven’s
Ries imitates me too greatly, was Beethoven’s complaint about his one-time pupil and devoted disciple. Indeed, in Ries’ 1818 Symphony No. 4 the Beethovenian fingerprints
Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) left his native Bonn to apprentice with Beethoven in Vienna in 1801. After much success (Ries performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3
This disc combines world premiere recordings of the three cello sonatas by Beethoven’s friend and pupil Ferdinand Ries. As the booklet note asserts, it is
